Hi Everyone,

I hope you’re all excited about tomorrow’s show. The theme is Comfort Zones – Stories of getting out of them. https://www.meetup.com/fresh-ground-stories/events/311245817

I can’t wait to hear stories of how you pushed yourself and did something you were scared to do. We all need to do that sometimes. If you’re lucky, you come back with a story.

If you need some inspiration, here is our good friend Mike Lockhart getting a standing ovation at Seattle Ignite last week. Mike told this story at FGS last year, and it was just as beautiful then. Scroll ahead to 2:05:05 to see the story he calls, “Morphine and Cheese Danish.” 

I can’t tell you how happy I am when I see one of our tellers knock it out of the park at a big show like Seattle Ignite or a Moth grand slam. A couple of hours ago, a friend and FGS regular called to tell me she just got back from telling at the Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival. When she applied to be considered, the recording she sent them was from a story she told with us a year and half ago. Jonesborough is the most prestigious storytelling festival in the country, and hard to get into. But one of us did it!  https://www.storytellingcenter.net/festival/main/

One of the reasons we get such great tellers is because we have such great audiences. Even if you never tell a story, I’m incredibly grateful that so many of you come out each month to cheer on each person who does. It means a lot to the tellers and a lot to me.

Here’s a sweet story of people coming together that reminded me of the feeling I get on the third Thursday of each month 🙂

See you all tomorrow!

Show starts at 7:00 and we’re on the top floor of the Seattle Swedish Club.

Paul

Freshgroundstories at gmail dot com