Are you excited for our show this Thursday? Can you picture yourself sliding gracefully into one of our 109 spaces of free parking?
I honestly get excited every time I pull into that lot and don’t have to study a sign that says parking is free 2am – 5am every other Tuesday on leap years ending in 5. When you come to Fresh Ground Stories, you just park your car and walk into the building like it’s 1952.
Here is one of my favorite stories to get you inspired:
I also want to share a great new project I just heard about from Ed, one of our tellers from last month. He’s involved with a project called “Belongings,” a short docuseries about ordinary objects from people’s lives. They record people sharing short stories about these little things that mean a lot. I love this idea.
Here’s a quick blurb from their website:
“Belongings explores the emotional lives of ordinary objects. A watch. A chair. A photograph. A stone. The things people keep are rarely just things. They carry memory, grief, identity, history, and love.
Through intimate documentary storytelling, Belongings invites people to share the objects that have stayed with them and the stories those objects still hold.”
They are looking for story submissions, so sit back and look around the room for an object that means something to you. There’s a form to fill out on their website where you can submit your story. This weekend I’m going to wander from one end of my house to the other looking for something that tugs at my heart and then figure out a way to talk about it.
In the meantime, I hope to see you this Thursday on the top floor of the Swedish Club at 7pm for our next show. The theme is, “Stories of someone surprising you.”
See you then!
Paul
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