The bard is the one willing to learn, the one especially willing to learn unwelcome things about what the rest of us know. It is a burdensome, weighty proposition, one guaranteed to oblige the bard to run headlong into the blast of his or her time... And that is as it has always been for the deep storytellers. They pay a debt to life unsuspected by the rest of us. Part holy fool and court jester, part spiritual lawyer for the human encounter with the divine, the bard is the great rememberer, the librarian of all refused stories. Bards are first and always story hearers, and story seers. The capacity for story lives in their eyes and ears, as well as on their tongue. Stephen Jenkinson
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:25:04 +0000
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