The Star Fishers, by Jeanie Tomanek
"A people are as healthy and confident as
the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without
stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation. Even in
silence we are living our stories."
Ben Okri (in Birds of Heaven)
You are lying in bed. You are
ill with the modern illness, stress. The doctor has prescribed some pills. It
is a summer night. The window is open. Outside is the garden. The curtains are
moving.