Song Play for Gatherings
A playful game for friends and gatherings – mixes songs with psychology to reveal secret truths! Continue reading Song Play for Gatherings
The Nubian Dancer
(Please accept the formal language here. There are places even I do not fully understand nor know how to rewrite to make them easier. This is, like the others, a dictated story, transcribed while entranced.) I sway in these movements, … Continue reading The Nubian Dancer
TEACHING ENGLISH/WRITING – 45 Ways to Avoid Using the Word ‘Very’
How to avoid overuse of the word ‘very’ for new English speakers or writers Continue reading TEACHING ENGLISH/WRITING – 45 Ways to Avoid Using the Word ‘Very’
Roman Soldier – 8
Like it’s been said, I’m a man of few words. I learned early that talking just led to trouble. Now my woman, this one, she knows without needing any words. We’ve made up our own language, her and me. It’s a cross between her village talk and my old Roman solider talk. Continue reading Roman Soldier – 8
Slavery Is Best Endured by….- 7
Slavery is endured better by the uneducated than by the educated. These Romans have a lot to learn about how to treat their slaves. Continue reading Slavery Is Best Endured by….- 7
How the Mystery Player Exits – 5
http://www.norwichmedievalmysteryplays.co.uk/2016-blog/archives/07-2016The first image depicts an English pageant wagon – Sharp – A Dissertation on the pageants (1825)The second image shows a depiction of a mystery play in Metz during the middle ages.(The following is from the group’s archives with minor … Continue reading How the Mystery Player Exits – 5
The Coming of the Stranger – a fairy tale – 4
Once upon a time, in a far away land, lived a young girl who carried the waters from the well in a large jug upon her head. As she walked each day to the village well, she would sing the … Continue reading The Coming of the Stranger – a fairy tale – 4
HOLDING THE BABY – 2
Holding the baby, Scot let the infant’s eyes harden his. Be young, though all three of them had been, he not be a man seen to cry by those brothers who paraded and swore as men and called him but a baby in disguise, a girl under his kite, a dandy with looks too good even for a Scotsman. The young man thrust his hands out to the young girl as she walked in the woods. “Take her. I must grieve. I dinno how to care for a child.” Joyce looked up at her tall brother-in-law, dead Lorna’s wife. She … Continue reading HOLDING THE BABY – 2
FUN SELF-IDENTITY TEST/GOOD AT FAMILY, FRIENDS GATHERINGS
Make sure to answer questions 1-10 before moving on. No cheating or you will ruin it! Read the following questions, imagining the scenes in your mind, and write down the FIRST thing that you visualize. Do not think about the questions excessively. 1. You are walking in the woods. Who are you walking with? 2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal is it? 3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal? 4. You walk deeper into the woods. You enter a clearing and … Continue reading FUN SELF-IDENTITY TEST/GOOD AT FAMILY, FRIENDS GATHERINGS
4 – Noises from the Heart – Caroline’s Story
Dying ain’t as hard as living. No siree. My only regret is I’m goin first, and we’re not goin together. Ain’t should be like that. Damn it. How I hollered at that dear husband of mine not to use that damn word “ain’t” and here it is, set right in my heart like a vampire stake. Wish I could find myself somehow, somewhere. Find myself, after blowin to bits by Hollis, that damn son of mine. I was one of the sweetest-tempered girls in the county. Until that son grew up, wild. I’ll never knowd what made him so mean. … Continue reading 4 – Noises from the Heart – Caroline’s Story
Alice Delaney Walker - Teacher, Writer, Traveller 