Artsy
Listen to TinaO read the poem here.
I’m one of the girls you think about
*
Listening to snowflakes
growing holly from my elbows
cedars flanking my spine
and this collarbone,
dotted with red berries
*
I walk these paths,
barefoot,
toes, who can’t help themselves but flirt
with you,
each padded foot-fall
across the forest floor
smirking
and winking,
sparkles lifting off
from the soft bed
of the earth
with each step
*
You notice
She’s cute
you think.
Skirt smudged with sand
jacket dripping with ocean behind her
always
with a stone in her pocket
*
The wondering
where her mind goes
How her hands move
How her throat opens
How sound carries through her body
How she breathes in colour
*
Artsy
is what you say
not at all, what you think
but it’s the only way
you know how to explain
the taste of how she lives
from your mouth
WHERE WE’VE BEEN – circa 2016
I was working through the label of ‘woo woo’ which is thrown around lovingly and always jokingly… but always with an element of judgement underneath.
It was time to say… I am woo… and it’s what makes me think the way I do.
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 of you until they’ve been fully heard.
This is release #5 of sixteen weeks of Story Hits (vlog) from as far back as 2013. Some are my favourites, some are yours. If you missed week #1, you can start at the beginning with: Out of the Water 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. CLICK HERE for TinaO Story stuff.