I am ready to zoom. I love it!

On the third Wednesday of the month, our home routine stops.

We do not dine together. Each of the two men with whom I live (husband and son) know that to interrupt me between around 7.15pm and 9.00pm is temping fate! Microphone tested, headphone checked! I am ready to zoom. I love it!

The Storytelling Zoom! I become engrossed in the tales told. Each theme elicits personal tales, folk tales, sad tales, happy tales, historical tales, fairy tales, Fables. My genre (if I am game enough to allocate the term “genre” to anything I tell) is personal tales. I believe that stories and the telling of them are what will keep me alive even when I’m gone! When reactions come through the chat, I feel connected, recognized and valued! Some of the many things I miss in retirement, especially during COVID! It is not the same as personal connection, seeing faces, eyes, smiles in “the flesh” but it is a pretty good substitute. 

I’ve connected with people from all around the world. Every new teller from new country or region, the story, the accents, the gestures, the songs, open up a whole new awareness of connection with people even though where I live is so far away from them.

I’m nearly 72. Being part of storytelling keeps my brain working, remembering, and feeling grateful for what I have learned and lived and loved.

The encouragement in the responses from those present lifts me up!

Louise Roach.

This is a free online session of Oral Storytelling with tellers and listeners from all around the globe. Enjoy a variety of story styles and genres.