Do you tell stories? Not to your children, I mean, but stories, to your friends. The story of your last holiday, or the story of a chance encounter on the train, or the story of you growing wings.
In the old days, these long and dark winter months were the months of storytelling. There isn’t much to be done in winter when you live off the land, and what’s do be done is done in the meagre hours of daylight. Therefore, when night falls, you sit in the kitchen, around the fire, and you tell each other stories. To while time away.
But there’s more to telling stories than just whiling away time. Stories can be, if told well and with conviction, transformative. Telling the story of who you will become will set you on the path. Telling the story of kindness and goodness will make kindness and goodness enter your hearth.
So what about this: Once upon a time…
Both images are shot by ©Alejandra Sinclair, 2024.
*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.
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