“Mother Night: Learning to See in the Dark”

Sounds True is the superlative audio company that has produced my audio books for the last twenty years… my works like The Radiant Coat, Stories about the Crossings Between Life and Death… a work used by many professionals in health, healing and hospices. Other of my works: Theatre of the Imagination: Thirteen weeks of live performances of myths and stories revolving around dark and difficult life themes… broadcast over many NPR and public radio stations in US and Canada. There are 14 audio books now. Some have managed to be noted for awards.

Tonight, Wednesday October 14th, at 7pm Mountain Standard Time, instead of again taking to the stage in performance, instead of again being alone in the sound studio with engineers outside the glass window, we’re going to do a first (for me it’s a first)… a six week long series as a Live Web Event every Wednesday night.

The Live Web Event series is called Mother Night: Learning to See In The Dark. You can read more about it here if you wish.

And you can hear my voice for free in an hour long podcast-interview with the intrepid founder/president of Sounds True, Tami Simon… the interview is called Diamonds in the Dark. If listening takes too long, you can if you like, read a transcript of the interview by clicking on “read the transcript” on that page.

Sometimes TMV readers write to me wondering what I do with my days and nights. Different endeavors depending on the call. But right now, it is cold as a witch’s lace-up motorcycle boot here in the Rockies. So near dusk tonight, I’ll climb in my black pickup truck and tool down the road an hour away to the big sound studio where teams and engineers, microphones, headphones, p-popper screens and a clothesline (for any notes) and whatever cpu gear will be waiting for me…

and once there, I’ll find just the right key on my big key ring to open the door to another world… a world of ancient stories and myths… the first ‘news-broadcasters’ of the old oral traditions… for stories have always been used to teach, and to remember what might matter most to us all once we manage to shoulder past all the aggrivations of the day world.

Listeners will be able to email in questions if they like tonight, and all in all, hopefully the stories ‘ from the dark’ …from Mother Night’s fireside, will warm hearts and souls of all raggedy, strange, and wondrous fellow travelers who step into the circle with us… we who are equally ragged, strange, and hopefully wondrous in our own ways.

This I wrote for the precis of Mother Night:

“The most endangered species on earth is the human soul. Many try to stand in one world only, the world of the collective culture, thereby experiencing a sense of standing outside the true self, allowing too much waste into one’s life—due in part to over-immersion in the daytime world only. A sense of being ‘not in oneself entirely’ comes from not returning to the soul’s true home, often enough … a home that is not provisioned nor protected by the overculture. Thus, a critical el susto (loss of soul nourishment) comes upon us. We are weakly linked or severed completely from the one-of-a-kind wild and wise self that emerges from the realm of mystery, dreams, and shadow…”

No Pollyanista, I know for certain most of us have traveled so very far, and through so very much, to gather together at any crossroads in time, especially after having so relentlessly crossed and crisscrossed such a wide world that is part wild –and part bewildering– in part deadly — in part life-sparing…

Most will know what I’m saying when I say:

Scar Clan is being convened tonight.