कहानी कहना बडा अच्छा लगता है | Loves to Tell Stories

By and | 1 October 2016

I love hanging
out with my foster mum.
She knows me my life my journey.
She knows me better than anyone.
She knows my own

biological family more than me.
She loves to share stories to my children about my grandma,
and about how I came to be
in her care she loves stories
about the desert and my elders.
About how we’d take off and play
all day and go bush hunting. I love my stories
I share with my children they eagerly listen as we share
in the car as we drive with music off enjoying each
other’s company for the hours confined
in my car driving interstate to make our own.
I love how my children hold
on to the ones that make me belly laugh like the one my son reminds me of
every now and then they make me smile.
Memories created in time
when we only had each other.
I love it how my daughter come up
laughing to me mum you remember that time when …
Then stories flood
their memory and remember then this happened and happened.
Stories of travel and music and places food and people.
When I was young just outed into the world
I travelled to places that held significant meaning stories
I grew up with stories of the Gundigai and the dog
on the Tucker box,
Redfern and the tent embassy. Byron Bay
and Uluru all places with my children over shared
stories and visited from NT to SA
QLD and VIC desert to coast and everywhere
in between … I share for them
so when they grow they remember so they have something special
to share with their babies.
The power of storytelling is strong. It’s healing
and moving and it began when I like my children
began to see the world.

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