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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:11:04 EST
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 1/14/2004 9:46:09 AM Central Standard Time,=20 monaghan.1@OSU.EDU writes: > As I explore storytelling in this chapter of my life I increasingly > discover humor in the so-called "negative" stories. >=20 > Robert Monaghan >=20 I find this an interesting statement. I like your idea of a Diary to make=20 the stories more real and I can see how humor can help. One of my students=20= in=20 Costa Rica lost her brother to a tragic accident (he was riding his bike to=20= the=20 store and a truck driver opened his door on him, he hit the door really hard= ,=20 fell, got up and fell down again dead--broken neck). During our class,=20 (sewing with 3 other girls), she told me about her brother and how he died.=20= As she=20 told the story it came out that he was very accident prone and as she told m= e=20 of the different accidents that he had had in his life, she began to smile=20 and laugh a little. Her brother was quite a character and by telling me abo= ut=20 this she began to remember him for how he was and hopefully will always be=20 remembered and not for how he died and the loss that she was feeling. Marcia Guti=E9rrez ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||