Sharing Life Stories

From A Storied Career on Twitter, I found out about International Day for Sharing Life Stories.

…encouraging individuals and organizations to this year’s 3rd International Day for Sharing Life celebration on May 16, 2010!
As in the prior years, we encourage you to consider any number of activities, including:

• Story Circles in schools, community centers, homes, and churches
• Public open-microphone performances of stories
• Exhibitions of stories in public venues as image, text, and audio-visual materials
• Celebratory events to honor local storytellers, practitioners and organizations
• Open houses for organizations with a life-story sharing component
• Online simultaneous gatherings, postings, and story exchanges
• Print, Radio and Television broadcast programming on life stories, and documentaries that feature oral histories and story exchanges

How much of your life story would you share? It is one thing to tell a friend, quite another to put it out there for anyone and everyone to read or hear. Everyone has things we keep to ourselves. But, the overall story could be shared. Still, if you keep out all the juicy bits, the scary parts and the real emotion, any life story becomes bland.

Think of sharing your life story as a test of your own boldness. Yet, keep in mind that you don’t know who may read or hear it down the road. That is just a sad facet of our digi culture.

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