Fall Inspiration!

Oh how I LOVE Autumn...

Inspiration...

RAIN

Rain, rain, and more rain.

Falling from the sky, rain.

Heavy abounding tears from above.

Rain, rain and more rain.

Oh how I love to watch you fall, rain.

Soaking the earth in your dewy imperfection.

Rain, rain and more rain.

What a gentle comfort you are, rain.

Wrapping me in your tranquil embrace.

Rain, rain, and more rain.

Storytelling

Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view.

The earliest forms of storytelling were thought to have been primarily oral combined with gestures and expressions. In addition to being part of religious ritual, rudimentary drawings scratched onto the walls of caves may have been forms of early storytelling for many of the ancient cultures. The Australian Aboriginal people painted symbols from stories on cave walls as a means of helping the storyteller remember the story. The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance. Ephemeral media such as sand, leaves and the carved trunks of living trees have also been used to record stories in pictures or with writing.

With the advent of writing, the use of actual digit symbols to represent language, and the use of stable, portable media, stories were recorded, transcribed and shared over wide regions of the world. Stories have been carved, scratched, painted, printed or inked onto wood or bamboo, ivory and other bones, pottery, clay tablets, stone, palm-leaf books, skins (parchment), bark cloth, paper, silk, canvas and other textiles, recorded on film, and stored electronically in digital form. Complex forms of tattooing may also represent stories, with information about genealogy, affiliation and social status.

Traditionally, oral stories were committed to memory and then passed from generation to generation. However, in Western, literate societies, written and televised media has largely surpassed this method of communicating local, family and cultural histories. Oral storytelling remains the dominant medium of learning in many countries with low literacy rates.

Inspired by a Photo..

Ptolemy Gray, King of the underworld, held the clockwork Princess in his bony clutches. Magically entombed in a grandfather clock the princess was unable to call for help. The forest animals looked on in sadness "something MUST be done!!" exclaimed the owl. If only we could get back to Ansonio and alert the Prince.

Time was running out for the clockwork Princess, soon she would be wed to Ptolemy Gray and would remain forever in the the bitter and gray underworld. A single icy tear ran down the Princess's face. Was all hope lost? Only time would tell...