Author
Sally Russell
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Published
February 2008
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Product Description
This work features stories that teach us to tell time. Coming from a family that some would call addicted to storytelling, Sally Russell began listening nearly twenty years ago especially for stories that bring the past into the present. The subjects range from love, sex, and death to less weighty considerations such as journeys, building fires, cooking, and a variety of family matters. Beginning with her own family's account of what happened to them during the American Civil War and how those stories directly affected her life 125 years later, Russell shares the discovery of time-traveling through a range of tales that are humorous, historical, haphazard, heart-warming, and heartbreaking, often within the same story. For Russell, all stories, however personal or cultural, represent shared human history and form an intricate, original, and sheltering tapestry that belongs to all and represents a curious security in our future-shock world.Through beloved old stories and through new ones forming, threads of regret, sorrow, joy, wonder, courage, wisdom, beauty, and some other thing that isn't any of these things - perhaps the greatest mystery - are woven into a fabric that entertains, educates, and delights with scenes of days gone by, portraits of worthwhile people, and events that shaped our characters. Story-telling is an important vehicle by which we bond with each other in multiple dimensions and generations. The stories she shares show how story-telling gives us a latitude of home, to use an old nautical term, i.e., a reference point on our map of being that shows us where we came from. In a figurative sense, latitude of home is that place/time from which we start. Our stories, our family myths, give us the knowledge of our place in Time. Russell invites readers to consider their own repertoires of stories, what they can learn about and from their own family myth, and how they can share that myth to inform, delight and strengthen.
Specification
Author
Sally Russell
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Published
February 2008
Weight
572g
Page Count
304
Dimensions
163 x 233 x 26 mm
ISBN
9780881460780
ISBN-10
0881460788
Eden Code
2323833
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Author/Creator: Sally Russell
ISBN: 9780881460780
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date: February 2008
Weight: 572g
Dimensions: 163 x 233 x 26 mm
Eden Code: 2323833
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