Creation Stories/Coyote Wisdom

[wylddelirium]

Here's your assignment, class. I'm actually doing this as a precursor to a possible workshop someday, so you can all be my calico-colored guinea pigs

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[wylddelirium]

So do it, numbnuts.

I would try

[vardissakheli]

but I'd just get interrupted

Re: I would try

[wylddelirium]

What would happen if you went away for a weekend, specifically just to write this story? What would it take for that to occur?

Actually, it would be easier

[vardissakheli]

to go away during the week, since my wife's working full-time now and I've got plenty of vacation to blow.

I'm sort of afraid I'd stay stuck in my dumb habit and waste the entire time. That's what's happened on weeks when she has been away at conferences and I thought I might get down to something I cared about doing. But a change of environment might be a better way to break the habit. Very good suggestion. Now to figure out when to try it

Re: Actually, it would be easier

[wylddelirium]

I am currently reading a book about how to use creating one's own stories can help focus one towards better goals, better perceptions, etc. I consider myself a storyteller (in several senses of the word) and also see the very important worth in owning their own stories, being that self-aware, etc.

So it may happen. I may either do it as a weekend at my place (kind of like a BTW without tattoos) or at a pagan festival of somesort, or both. I need to think about it some more.

[ex_greymaide85]

I've actually done this, but it wasn't very good. It was about a girl wandering around trying to find the horizon, not really realizing it was an illusory and always distant thing.

The creation myth of me

[heldc]

There was once a lump of clay. And it was formed into some rather dull unmemorable item by careless hands. Now, when it was formed, it wasn't formed evenly, so some spots set before others, as some spots were thin and fragile and some were thick and clumpy. This was both a blessing and a curse, as those same careless hands knocked the shaped clay onto the floor where the thin parts broke. Had the shaped clay been shaped evenly, it might have survived the fall intact. But, because it had been shaped unevenly, parts of it were not yet set, and were able to be reshaped through the efforts of the clay itself, which desperately yearned to be something beautiful and pleasing, something people would want and like having around. It tried to incorporate the thin dried pieces as well, thinking it ought to retain all that it had been. However, these pieces couldn't be reshaped as they were no longer moldable, and ended up giving the broken reshaped clay sharp jagged edges, which caused many who approached the clay to bleed and retreat, leaving

[soulchanger]

Oh, gods, that's like my whole livejournal.