And I shared the picture of the Stone Soup layout on Facebook with this caption:
Telling the story of Stone Soup tomorrow. Like
many folks, I've known this story for years and years. But I think
until I was preparing to share it with the children, I didn't really
*feel* the themes. I thought it was a story about sharing
a little light trickery. But it is also a story about the haves and the
have-nots. And about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
Changing ways of perceiving what is enough for one's self and one's
clan, and then looking into the neighbor's bowl to see if there is
enough there, too. (And then, expanding the idea of who is a neighbor.)
Glad to have spent some time with this tale, and looking forward to it
being on the shelves to tell again and again in the years to come!
And do you know that a UU minister friend of mine in Tulsa shared it with another friend who was opening up a food justice organization in Tulsa called...Stone Soup Community Venture? And this friend wrote me and asked if she could share my picture and post!
HOW COOL IS THAT?
I am just tickled at having made this connection, and at the hope that the picture and snippet of text might pique one or two people's interest on her Facebook page enough to "like" and follow her work.
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