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Beki Ambrose |
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I believe everyone, especially storytellers, should be lucky enough to have more than one mother, and I came into this world blessed with ten. .(Ask to see my poem A Circle of Women) So naturally I grew up with fairy tales, folk tales, home-spun tales and books, books, books. The first poem I was made to memorize was Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘When I Was Down Beside the Sea’, from A Childs Garden of Verses I composed my first poem before I had barely learned to write my letters and that began a life long love affair with words, books and authors, quickly joined by music, horses and gardens. In 1985 I became a member of the tribe Geeningas, a medieval re-creation group where I told stories around the campfires. There I earned ribbons for children’s tales, fantasy and folk tales. Not to mention a few awarded for such creations as a subtlety i.e. Black Birds Baked in a Pie, standing behind a tree facing the archers lined up to shoot their arrows in my direction, and I called the positions where they landed. I was the one who killed the bear and came home with the coveted quill and a few arrows which the fighters had donated. A story which I told to a fourth grade |
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class at the Elementary School where I work. An avid devotee of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run With The Wolves, I began to seriously add to my writing, completing a book of poems and collecting more stories to add to my ongoing body of knowledge, which came into fruition when I became a volunteer at the March 2002 Annual Story Telling Festival sponsored by Tejas Storytellers Guild in Denton, Texas. There I was blessed to meet and talk with David Holt, who I can sincerely credit with the push to seriously become a storyteller myself. He also is the reason I am searching for a Zinc King Washboard. If anyone can tell me where I can find one please let me know! I have since spent as many hours as possible going to Storytelling 101 classes and as many storytelling concerts as possible. My summer was devoted to Stories Under The Stars activities, which began with being a Student Teller at Chisholm Park in Hurst. My first experience with a microphone, EGADS! Hope to meet and see you at a storytelling in the near future.
Beki Ambrose
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