In a weird bit of cosmic timing, I read a post in a gourd newsletter about a blog that needed stories at the very same time I was making a new blog on Soulcast. It's like getting peanut butter in your chocolate or chocolate in your peanut butter. Here is the post that inspired me: Essay and photographs - Gourdzette subscriber Holly Stevens of Oak Ridge, N.C., publishes The Storyteller and the Listener Online, a noncommercial newsletter about storytelling in the community for purposes of peacemaking, healing, bridge building and reconciliation ||{1}|| The newsletter publishes two guest essays each month from around the world. Holly is always looking for essays about art being used to help tell a story and would love to know if any Gourdzette subscribers use gourds for telling stories that help promote peace, healing, bridge building or reconciliation at the local community level. If you think you have an example to share through an essay and photographs, please email Holly at healing_stories@mac.com End quote. I would like to have a legacy of stories that I can present in real life. But it's always nice to have an online place to test drive them, so here I am.