Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! All Other Holidays, Too!

Storytelling is one of the lonliest, but most rewarding professions in the entire world. No where else can you do what you do in the midst of many appreciative people (the audience) and then return to your own little bit of seclusion to get ready for the next gig.
However, in that seclusion, the storyteller always knows that they are not alone. I belong to many groups teachers, writers, broadcasters, journalists, etc., but not one of those groups is as giving and sharing as storytellers. At any given moment you know that you have many friends who are feeling your happiness and pain and sharing your joy and sorrow.
This post is for all of you, my friends. May you have the best of everything in this season that we all celebrate. May find joy and peace. May others find you. May my thoughts warm your as your thoughts warm me. Thanks for welcoming me into the circle of the storytelling world. Not to leave anyone out, but in my tradition.... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Welcome To the Rendezvous

This blog is going to come in "fits and starts" as my grandma would say. I won't try to keep it every day, but as often as I can. I want to invite all of you to send me comments at wyomingteller@msn.com and let's see what kind of info you would like to see on this chronicle. Some of the things that I intend to address are Rocky Mtn. Storytelling Events. That's everything in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. But I need your help. Let me know what you think of a particular festival or conference and I'll send along that info.
Also, don't forget to check out the forums on various festivals. on the Storyteller's Forum on this website.
I also will talk about what great tellers we have that are unrecognized except in their own specific region and how we can support one another in storytelling.
More later.

Rendezvous

In the late 1800s, the Rocky Mountainsprovided spots and opportunities for the fur traders and trappers to get together yearly to trade furs and trinkets, pick up powder and lead for bullets, renew acquaintances and make new friends, and a place to “swap yarns” about their year in the wilderness. This site is designed as a placewhere storytellers can get together and do the same things.As the site develops, we hope to provide you with new “powder and bullets”, let you renew acquaintances, make new friends and “swap yarns.”