{"id":2058,"date":"2015-10-23T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:49:54","slug":"poem-living-between-the-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/23\/poem-living-between-the-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Living Between The Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

He wrote<\/strong>
\nShe read<\/strong>
\nStudiously massaging<\/strong>
\nFact and fiction<\/strong>
\nAnd in between<\/strong>
\nThe pages<\/strong>
\nThey lived<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem addresses both the role that storytelling plays in the narratives of our lives and the need to move beyond fiction to incarnate into our real lives such truths as stories may impart.\u00a0 Storytelling through literature and theater serves more than mere entertainment.\u00a0 Storytelling can model character studies, cautionary tales without the real life tragedies, and heroics of all types without constant personal risk.\u00a0 The emotional catharsis of vicariously experiencing the many and varied lives of others, biographical or mythological, can inform our own exploration of our highest ideals and darkest impulses.\u00a0 Still, storytelling, even at its best, is no substitute for living.\u00a0 At some point, we need to author and act out our own narrative on this stage we call earth.\u00a0 And life has all the complications of live theater — and more!\u00a0 There are no dress rehearsals for life; this is it.\u00a0 Life does not offer any assurance of a Hollywood ending, and you can’t read ahead in a script to nuance your motivation.\u00a0 In life, tragedies are real and heroics are risky.\u00a0 Of course, such a precarious situation\u00a0offers a much more spellbinding way of living than recounting even the best “studiously massaged” story.\u00a0 May you cast yourself into the lead role in your life, and may your story be original and lively enough to bear repeating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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