This month, the theme for the monthly storytelling group I attend was “Starting Over”. I’m the poster child for that, but I didn’t feel like being too intense this time, so I thought about a blog post I did a while back on the Evil Eye. That’s the story I told, with some modification. If you have the ability to listen to the audio below, let me know what you think. And if you have a chance to join a storytelling group in your area, like Fresh Ground Stories here in Seattle, I highly recommend it!
7 responses to “A Story About Reframing Misfortune”
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Shake it off, babe! Keep on keeping on, just like Marshawn! Oops, that was a football analogy, I don’t think this will work for you. heh, heh.
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Not even a little bit. 🙂 But thanks.
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Your description of the fortune teller left me with a visualization that’s haunting my daydreams…oh, the eye patch. Where can I find someone to give me that evil eye. I could use a good excuse for my eccentricities…they’re threatening to medicate me. 🙂
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Well, it’s still a big deal in Turkey, apparently. Everywhere I went there, you saw this blue glass symbol pictured here–which is supposed to protect you against it. Every place of business has one in the doorway.
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My Turkish landlord has one in her office but I don’t want protection…I need that curse so I too will have an excuse for my bad choices. 🙂
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Well, I’m saying that if the protection things are so common in Turkey, the evil eye givers must be pretty common, too!
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