FINISH LINES
Listen to TinaO read this poem here.
a nervous system,
that’s what we are
electricity and thought mashed up
on sound
words on guts
fear on finish lines
how we love a good finish line story
but we are far
far
far
from ever being finished
–
stop pushing
I heard,
but I don’t know how to swim
stop
pushing
I…
but I will be sucked down by the reeds if…
stop
pushing
(hold breath)
but this is how I…
stop
–
a list of finishes
fishes
still swimming
–
stop
the,
now go.
–
Listen to the poem read by TinaO here.
Out of the Water – Story Hit #1
pre-triathlon – post cancer – July 2016
These vlogs bring you back with me to where we’ve been together over the last seven years. I share them to close one story so as to open another.
This year on December 25th, which is both Christmas Day and my 50th Birthday, I am stepping into a new story…and I know what I know what I know about how stories work:
Stories won’t let go until they’ve been fully heard.
For the next sixteen weeks I am releasing a Story Hit (vlog) from our last five years together. Some will be my favourites, some yours.
This is release #1 – Out of the Water, and if you’d like to carry on to release #2 – Beauty School Drop Out – click here.
I will be writing more about these moments in both my upcoming book: STORY STONES (coming fall 2021, and in my one woman show: O MY GOD (touring spring 2021).
On my 50th Birthday, if you’re on my VIP list, I’ll be sending you 50 Days of Christmas Story Gifts from Dec. 25th to February 12th. If you want some story goodness filled with sneak peeks into the creation and rehearsal process, plus be able to pre-order the book, and order tickets to the show, click here and the let the gifting begin! (You’ll get a bunch of cool story right away)
I have to close one story to open another.
Thank you for listening.
xT
Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.
If you’d like to know more about TinaO’s approach to STORY and receive updates about STORY STONES the book, and O MY GOD, her one woman show, click here and you’ll be added to her ‘stay in touch’ list plus she’ll send you a few short intro videos about what story means to her.
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