This Saturday some of us drove to the Heritage Park in Downtown Dallas to hear professional storytellers bend our ears. We enjoyed listening to their stories, some personal, some memorized, some rhyming, some ghost stories and some passed on through the network of other storytellers. In fact we were asked to share our own stories. What a treat! My favorite story of the afternoon? I think it was a toss up between why someone left a promising career as a lawyer to become a school teacher, and a rhyming story on what to eat. By the way, we're researching storytelling and how it relates to Bible translation. See our other blog called Blogim Stori.

This bit of meandering happened some time ago. Can you believe it, over 20 years? Anyway, my good friend urged me to see some of the Himalayans and suggested I have a guide. I agreed somewhat reluctantly, but really enjoyed that trek. My guide constantly urged me to 'bistarai janohos' 'go slowly (up those trails)'. Going slowly worked for me, plus he was great company. We chatted in Nepali. During our trek we met two other Sherpas, one carrying a 25 kilo bag of rice and the other going to see family. I didn't learn any Sherpa that I can remember, but we did have a go at writing it. My guide couldn't write in his language, and when he learned that this kind of thing was what I was trained to do, we had at it. I can't say that we produced anything, but maybe it was an 'aha' experience for him. It was for me. The fuzzy picture is another story. I dropped my camera earlier and didn't know the mirror was misaligned. Some pics were okay some not. Go to my photos at Picasa Web for some other shots of that trip.

Not only is it worth walking to the top of Enchanted Rock, but there are some beautiful areas around its perimeter as well, such as this spot on Sandy Creek.

If you're ever traveling in central Texas, the hill country, we recommend seeing Enchanted Rock. This is a panorama shot is done with the assistance of Autostitch.