Hi everyone,
I hope you’re excited about next week’s show. It’s been too long. We haven’t missed two shows in a row since 2020 when I resisted doing FGS on Zoom because I knew the pandemic thing was bound to wrap itself up in another week or two. I am the Nostradamus of nothing.
But next Thursday we are telling stories no matter what.
There will be no more flat tires on I-5 and no more holidays that fall on third Thursdays. I’ve made all the appropriate sacrifices to the storytelling gods so you know this show is guaranteed to happen.
I hope 8-10 of you bring stories to tell. Our theme this month is, “CTRL-ALT-DELETE: Stories of starting over.”
Maybe you have a story about starting over or rebooting your life that you’d like to tell? It doesn’t matter how big or small it is. It could be about starting over after a big breakup or starting over after losing in the quarterfinals of the 1983 Lake Stevens Middle School Chess Championships. I would love to hear both those stories.
Here are the rules & guidelines for telling at FGS if you haven’t seen them in a while: https://freshgroundstories.com/2013/01/22/storytelling-rules-and-guidelines/
Here’s a wonderful story I heard last month on The Moth. It’s by Matthew Dicks, the author who wrote the book that I give away each month at our show to a random first-time teller.
Maybe next month our theme will be something about friends. Matt’s story has inspired me.
I hope you’re all doing well and noticing all the stories in your life happening around you. See you Thursday at 7 pm at the Chabad of Queen Anne 🙂
Paul
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