We played music from Waterway for a storytelling bonfire last night.
It was a scene that reminded me of the end of Fahrenheit 451: dusk, a fire builds, people slowly gather, children watch quietly, faces glow around the circle, a man brings his goat…they both listen, mosquitoes…and more mosquitoes, informal passage of time with stories and music…performed by heart under the open sky.
This event is ten years in the making! Hosted now by the Riverside Raconteurs, people gather along the Grand River once a month to revive the art of storytelling, poem reciting and witty anecdote telling.
The night ended with a Nash-Off, a ping-pong recitation around the fire using short verse by Ogden Nash.
Over thirty Nashisms were recited!
Here are some Nashisms your day:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
I often wonder which is mine:
Tolerance, or a rubber spine?
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Carmen
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