Our columnist Patricia Bunin writes about what stories mean to us.
I am standing at my kitchen sink talking to the purple tulips relaxing in a water bath.
They move gracefully in the elegant cut glass vase that was a wedding present from my late friend Tonie. Not that being married in her rose garden wasn’t already enough of a present. One of the tulips collapsed onto the mouth of the vase as I spoke. I love that about tulips. When their time is up, they are as ballerinas folding over gracefully and taking a final bow. No tears. No upsets. No attempts to prolong life.
“Please know that if tulips were in season when we got married, I would have happily floated down a tulip-filled aisle,” I tell the remaining flowers. I want them to know my story as it is a part of their story. I wait quietly for a response, content to sponge off the tile counter. I am ending my day in my way and I wish for them to do the same. This is the part of “storying” that is golden.
I don’t know how the notion came to me that the teller of a tale need not be human. But once I discovered it, I had no choice but to write. If only I could hear the stories then only I could write them, or so I believed. “Are you happy on this shelf with other poets?” I might ask my book of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. “Or would you like to sit with novelists for a while?”
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