My twenty five years of living in South Carolina has given me a greater appreciation of storytelling. The ability to weave the events of daily living into captivating stories seems to have an omnipresence. This has made me aware of the power of story.
This power of story is everywhere around us. We are shaped by stories…family stories, cultural stories, biblical stories and their confluence. Some we choose and some choose us. They tell us where we come from, who we are. There are stories we must reject and new stories we must create. Our responsibility lies in our power to pass along or to forget the story. The challenge becomes which stories do we choose to keep alive? To whom do we need to tell them?
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Through the ages an oral tradition has served to shape our humanity, while the process of selecting what to include in that tradition
seems to more directly shape our culture. Would culling nothing give us a greater sense of universal brotherhood, or would it
lead us so far from the path that could return us to innocence that we forever lose our way? Do we censor the future of our humanity by shaping our culture?
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