Finding a Story...Fascinating!

For this week's blog, I wanted to write about the following statement:


"So basically I was following Seidenbaum's advice by seeing everything around me as material for a story, using the way the slaughterhouse uses the whole pig, including hooves and snout and squeal."

-p. 35

I suppose what caught my attention when I read this was that it spoke to my own personal fears for this class. Sometimes, I feel as though I have no stories of my own to tell, no great adventures to tell about to my grandkids someday. Has my life been exciting? I guess it depends on what you mean by exciting. I haven't enlisted to fight in some great crusade, nor have I had a chance to fight for equal rights the way my grandparents did.

But this reminded me that I do have stories in me, and around me. When I took Creative Nonfiction two years ago, I had the same fears about my life. Was it worthy of being put down on paper? Did I do or experience anything worthy of being recorded for posterity? Now, as then, I realize that I do have few good yarns in me, and this quote reminded me of that.