I want to provoke dialogue
about what it means to be human, to be creative, and to value the stories we
live by even if those stories are not originated in one's personal experience
and those stories must first be moved from the unfamiliar to home. I hope I am
already doing this, but if I am not I will tell more stories and write more
poetry and craft more imagery worth sharing and reinterpreting until they are
no longer my own. This is because stories, like any other food, are an agency
for change, for growth, for development, for life, for health, and for the
transfer of all our accumulated energies after present life has passed over
into its next form.
James Haywood Rolling, Jr. - author, dual professor of Art Education and Teaching & Leadership, Syracuse University
Image credit: James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
