Brother Blue, Storyteller
Brother Blue, a legendary figure in storytelling, died on December 3. He was the center of a community of storytellers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over 20 years. Kevin Brooks and Laura Packer call him the father of modern storytelling.
"His stories always allowed the listener to imagine bigger worlds, see themselves in the heart of the tale and believe that they, too, were storytellers. Brother Blue said that he told stories, "from the middle of the middle of me to the middle of the middle of you," and that if you heard another person's story you could never harm them, so stories could save the world. He never stopped telling stories. -- From his obituary
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The New York Times obituary of Hugh Morgan Hill, Brother Blue, was published today.
"Mr. Hill regarded storytelling as a sacred duty and a path to universal harmony. "When you tell a story, you tell it to all creation,” he once said. “It’s cosmic. It never goes away.""
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/arts/27hillobit.html
Posted by: Whitney | November 27, 2009 2:40 PM