Oh how I want to comment on the proposed budget and related issues tied to Bush’s comments and what he is actually doing, but that will have to wait as I have homework. And besides, I really do not want to give myself that headache tonight. Lest you think I am speaking metaphorically, I am not. Those sorts of topics, be it thinking or writing about them, literally give me headaches.
I am taking Storytelling this semester. Why, you may ask? Because I tell many (we all do), and usually poorly. Besides, it has far more practical applications than one may think. Anyway, my first telling is coming up this Monday. Yep, Valentine’s Day. I sort of looked for a ‘loverly’ sort of story but couldn’t really find one I liked enough to tell. Besides, we are supposed to search until we find one that really speaks to us—so I figured the whole theme-based idea wasn’t such a great idea.
But I found my story today! Now I need to adapt it a little and start learning it. Go ahead, can you guess? I should tell you that our 1st has to be a folktale. Well…he says suspensefully. It is from one of our texts [Favorite Folktales from around the World edited by Jane Yolen.] and is the 1st one in the section entitled "The Getting of Wisdom." From Greece, or from our present circumstances, I will be telling "Truth and Falsehood." Need I say more?