A lone figure stands at the edge of a dark abyss uncertain of what to do but knowing that the call is there and she must follow. She knows she is not alone, others have taken this journey before but she has never seen this place, never known this depth of darkness and she is afraid.
This is where I stood almost one year ago today, knowing that I must face the fears of a potential illness, already deep in grief after the loss of my dog, my mother and my father within months of each other. With no family to support me, except my wonderful significant other, now I faced a biopsy and needed to make a decision. I did what I had to do, I made the leap, and I wanted my friends to know where I was going.
That is how the Determined Storyteller, an alter-ego, an avatar I had created to make writing about the mundane chores of housecleaning interesting to my readers, became a hero for me and for them. I couldn't leap into the dark and fall into an unknown place, but she could. I couldn't face the monster in the cave that said its name was cancer, but she could. And as the D.S. traveled that path and took the hero's journey, she took me with her and all of my friends joined in the battle to save me and to inspire themselves for their own battles.
Please join me and the Determined Storyteller in a four hour intensive workshop of self-discovery on the hero's journey. March 18, 2011 at Sharing the Fire in Warwick, Rhode Island. To register for this experience: http://www.lanes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=19:site-content&id=128:preconference
Saturday, March 5, 2011
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