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The Best Storyteller of All Times
The Master of All the Masters in Storytelling
In Damascus, I fell in love with these verses when I was 24 years old (and still do). I wrote them in Spanish on my bed in red pen, the color of love, passion, revolution, security ( as it is the color of the base chakra), etc. The verses are of the great Spanish Poet Antonio Machado:
“Today is always still, all life is now.
And now, now is the time to keep the promises we made to each other.
Because yesterday we didn’t, because tomorrow is late.”
My mind does not often turn to Machado’s unquiet life, his tragic death far away from the dreams and land when I think of the sentence because tomorrow is late., because tomorrow is late. My thoughts turn to someone else…
Imagine that the price of a good story is not fame, money, or success. The price of the story is an extra day of life, extra hours before you repeat the same pattern: Story……another day in life….story….another day in life….
Imagine someone telling stories every night for nearly three years. Hundreds of stories were told during those long nights. Imagine the persistence, discipline, and creativity that person must have to overcome the ghosts of fear, writer’s block, or lack of inspiration.
