Ancient Footsteps

Your source for  zesty entertainment & wild flights of Fantasy, Story, Drama, Dance & Song as well as thoughtful presentations on Energy Crisis Awakenings and Theological issues ……..and, ……oh yes, the hilarity of 100 year old banjo music & blues:

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I….., I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”…….Robert Frost

-“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life”…..Friedrich Schiller, German poet.

- “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open up the door to the study and start reading. Take down the dulcimer.    Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground “Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

-”…a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were telling a story.” ...Jean-Paul  Sartre

-”Every powerful character the we encounter in story is a challenge to our own character and holds the possibility of changing us”…The healing Power of Stories by Daniel Taylor,Ph.D.

-“Theology is the study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.” …..Frederick Buechner

-“In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son….” Hebrews 1:1-2, And how did the Son speak to us from the shores of Galilee? ………HE TOLD STORIES!!!!!       ………”Storytelling,Imagination and Faith”, by Wm. Bausch

Favorite Poems: “The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy & “Go Down Death” from “God’s Trombones” by James Weldon Johnson

Favorite Books: Seeds of Contemplation (new edition)by Thomas Merton (a classic on contemplation, faith, dry wilderness,war & fear) and Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm (an undisputed Native American classic – particularly the story of jumping mouse & the medicine way, a journey into discovery & transformation)

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