a story about the past.

   “What kind of story do you want? It’s hard to describe the past when it’s often so mixed in. Mixed in terms of whether I was actually around, in the way I had been involved. It’s..an interesting situation to be in. However, I guess I can tell you about some of the ways I lived among people. I did a lot of music-related work. I helped teach kids folksongs that remain to this day, along with some that have unfortunately been lost. Sometimes people would let me tell stories about way, way back – about the stars, about stories of creation,  about the gods that they worshiped. I’ve gotten to see them in person. I knew that they had existed in a way. 

I’ve done work as a scholar, a farmer, a musician. I don’t really know.. I’ve just been shifting roles along with the times. And sometimes my sense of the past is off-kilter because I’ve had to flit out of this present space to avoid being caught up in some of the circumstances people have faced. 

I guess the consistent thing is being something of an observer, a volunteer, and trying to bring a sense that there was so much more than what one could see.

But it’s hard to articulate the ways that I’ve crossed between worlds – bringing a sense of truth to the more unusual aspects of belief that people have.