I had never heard of The Moth but a friend recommended the book How To Tell A Story and now I’m intrigued.  I read the Foreword and stopped to contemplate, and then, the Introduction, and another pause.  I was caught on the alignment that occurs when we tell and listen to a story, and discover and uncover the theme.  

“Sometimes you have to figure out who you’re not before you can become who you are.”

Those words affirm my belief that we’re here in a testing ground, exploring, interacting, responding, and learning the steps to climb to higher ground.

Reading the stories, I thought I had no story to tell but then I read: What are the moments from your life, big or small, that stick with you?

Immediately I was in Mexico City at the age of 19 when I learned my beloved, healthy father had died in a motorcycle accident.  Alive, then dead.

There’s a saga in the challenges of my return, and a three month break from school as my mother, brother, and I navigated logistics and loss.

Even now, 55 years later, my heart swells with the increasing moisture of love and tears come.

At the time, and even now when someone I love dies, I feel space open up as though life here is a matte painting, and they are showing me what’s beyond container and containment.

There is much for me to explore in continuing with this book, and so I ask you now:

What moments come to you that you want to examine and share, with yourself, and perhaps in that, with others?