When it starts coming together

Sometimes IT is just there.  You are standing in line waiting for the guy in front of you to finish explaining why the coffee pot he bought 3 months ago should be exchanged and IT is there.  You are driving along an all too familiar route when you ask yourself where are you and IT is there.  LAst night Mary couldn't sleep.  The end of her spring break and back to work on Tuesday, and just as she really wants to snooze, IT is there.  IT is the idea you have been looking for, but could never quite describe.

Ten minutes after Mary was in bed, she pops up and tells to me as I sat in the office, "STORY TELLING!"

I said that story telling was a great way to share with others, a book or history brought to life...

"We are story tellers!" she clarified.  "That's what we do everyday in the classroom."

I knew this had some relevance to something we must have been talking about at sometime.  Grabbing a banana from the kitchen Mary came into the office at reminded me that some time ago I talked about the National Storytelling Festival ( http://www.storytellingcenter.net/festival/ ) that happens each year in Tennessee during October. 

Mary sat in the chair waiting for me to jump on the idea.  She then laid out her thoughts about being storytellers and using that as a means of earning our keep when we go full-time on the road.
I guess the point here is that ideas, like knowledge and trees, take awhile to grow.  Once they have sprouted you have to nurture them and feed them to keep them alive.

Bruce Springteen, whose music I love, but politics leave something to be desired, has a song The River with the line:

 "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse..."

The theme of the song is growing up doing what friends and family expects you to to--

After high school you get married, get a job like dad, have kids and live off the memories of what you THOUGHT you wanted out of life.  Kind of a circle that breaks.

So last night, Mary and I were on the same path, a new circle. 
It was the answer to our "We don't know what we are looking for, but we will know it when we see it."