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                                                                                     Marilyn Kinsella

"It was great to see you in St, Louis and I will say, you were the most elegant and articulate MC I have seen in a long while. I loved the way each quote fit the teller and the tale!" Brian Fox Ellis storyteller

"You were delicious (to quote Susan Klein) as MC on Sat. night.  You impressed me with the perfect quotes of poetry, etc.  Magnificent! Storyteller, Leigh McGee

"Thanks SO much for your gracious mc job.  I really appreciate the thought and effort you took to make us feel welcome.  I could not have hoped for anyone to make me feel more comfortable.  Your segues were terrific!  You can be my mc any time!"  Shelby Smith, Storyteller

"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, and magic bean buyer...If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin, Come in, come in!"

Their story, yours and mine -- it’s what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them. —William Carlos Williams

To be a person is to have a story to tell. —Isak Dinesen

We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel- ‘Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.’ You’re not as alone as you thought. —John Steinbeck

The master gave his teaching in parables and stories, which his disciples listened to with pleasure-and occasional frustration, for they longed for something deeper. The master was unmoved. To all their objections he would say, ‘You have yet to understand that the shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story’. —Anthony de Mello

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. —Maya Angelou

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. —Italo Calvino

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. —Native American saying

Ending = If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
—Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all. —Hans Christian Andersen

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night.—Patti Davis

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher... —Patti Davis

The South Central Regional Concert, July, 2007

St. Louis Storytelling Concert at the Touhill, May, 2006

St. Louis Storytelling Concert at the Touhill, May, 2007