1. Listening to Write
Two Projects
"The greatest gift we can give one another is the gift of our attention."
Thich Nhat Hanh terryfarish.com
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3. Listening to folktales told aloud
in an ESOL class led to creating a
written tale in Nepali and English,
The Story of a Pumpkin
published by the
New Hampshire Humanities
Council
4. • "I didn't go to school but I remember many stories
my father told me when we worked on the farm."
Hari Tiwari, storyteller
7. Hari shows a kitchen tool she brought from Bhutan,
one of the images in a kitchen scene in The Story of a
Pumpkin.
8. "If you listen to this story you will receive a golden
garland." - the traditional ending to Nepali tales
9. A Sudanese community allowed me to
listen over years in the fashion of the
documentarian.
They wanted to tell me their stories so
people in the their new home could
understand that they were deeply
homesick and came to the U.S. so their
children would be safe and could get an
education.
10. "Home is home. I will always be homesick for
Sudan."
photo by Kate Philbrick katephoto.com
11. • "Why here do the parents respect the children instead of the children respect
the parents." photo by Kate Philbrick katephoto.com
12. • My novel about a
fictional girl from
what is now South
Sudan
