Succeed as a (Step)Family: Irish Inspiration 🍀
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Creating a strong and loving family requires skill, commitment, communication, and clarity. It requires consistently making the right choice (which works on every occasion). Today, I share a marvelous Irish folktale gleaned from the collection of Bab Feiritear, a warm-hearted storyteller from Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland.
I'd love to hear from you:
1. What wisdom can you share about nurturing unity and love in a family?
2. What other lessons or help do you find in this wonderful tale?
Thank you, as always, for your wisdom and input!
SOURCES and WORDS
Two collections of Bab's stories and lore:
Coiglímis an Tine: Cnuasach Seanchais agus Scéalta Bhab Feiritéar - edited by Bo Almqvist and Roibeard Ó Cathasaigh
Ó Bhéal an Bhab: Cnuas-scéalta Bhab Feiritéar - edited by Bo Almqvist and Roibeard Ó Cathasaigh
An rud is annamh is iontach = The thing that is rarest is most wonderful!
WHAT IS THIS CHANNEL ABOUT?
It's about how Irish tradition, folklore, and imagination can inspire us today to live joyful and creative lives. Poetry, seasonal lore, words and wordsmithery, music, storytelling, and traditional customs are all on the menu here!
WHO AM I?
I'm a poet, singer, storyteller, and scholar and teacher of Irish language and folklore with a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University where I've been teaching for the past 25 years. I also run the Bardic Academy, a school for singers, harpers, poets, and pianists, as well as the Celtic Wisdom School where we study Irish folklore with an eye to growing in creativity, wisdom, and joy.
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thanks for this story.
My pleasure, and thank you for listening!
Thank God for the Irish. ☘️ And I love that you keep the Irish language, stories, proverbs, and traditions alive.
Thank you so much for your kindness and encouragement. So grateful that you're here!
What an inspiring story. We need more stories about bravery to look up to in good times as well as in hard times. That does not always mean the story has to be overcoming impossible odds or doing great deeds of valor, those have their place and are very important, but It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary people that keep darkness in check. Small acts of kindness and courage. Thank you for sharing and I can't wait for next week's video!
Beautifully expressed: "it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary people that keep darkness in check. Small acts of kindness and courage." YES. I love everything you've shared here. We DO need these good stories just to remind us of who we most long to be. I'm so grateful for your presence here and for taking this story to heart. Thank you, too, for your eagerness for these videos. That gives me such a dose of encouragement and joy!
One of my favorite Irish stories and so happy to hear you tell it again! Thank you for doing this work to share these beautiful bits of folk wisdom from the Irish!
It's cause for celebration when I "see" you anywhere - in a classroom, out and about, or here online. Thank you for dropping in for a visit and for your generous words. Sending a big hug to you and your dear young artists, too!
Thank you for this tale. My song circles are like a family gathering. I try to make sure I respect that everyone has varying needs for being there, beyond sharing a song or a poem. Some to express their feelings. Some to be heard. Some as a distraction. I try to help people get what they need.
You always offer a warm FAILTE wherever you are, a Mhicheail, and I know that's true with your song circles. I like what you say about acknowledging the different needs of each person - that these needs often go beyond the music itself. Tuning into that requires sensitivity, and just like in this great story, the willingness to put people first, again and again. You do this - I know firsthand!
I'm used to German fairy tales which do not always have a happy ending so I was holding my breath at the end there and sighed with relief 😅.
Thank you for explaining what the loss of a cow meant at that time. At first, I thought the point of the story was "it's just money". Your explanation was illuminating. 😊
Oh, I'm so glad that my explanation made sense to you! I always feel it's important to step out of the narrative flow to explain that; otherwise, the choice seems ridiculously simple! Thank you so much for shining your light over here and for your lovely words of encouragement!
Even though Irish culture is known for an incorporation of the 'otherworld' it's fascinating how tales like this one are so rooted in the value of what is human (in this case even overriding the bean feasa :) Much gratitude to you Kate for continuing to share them 💚💙💜
Yes, you're so right: a truly human tale here about how to be a good human. AND the very stones of the hearth, that most human of home places, announce their approbation when the stepmother makes the right choice. Thank you so much for your reflection, a chara, and for your kindness and encouragement.
@@katechadbournebard One other thing that struck me about this story (this morning -- it's still resonating :) is that it's a transcending of the 'either/or' and entrance into the possibility of 'both and' ❤
@@amherst88 Yes! The best choices - ones made from love - open the door to this expansion and generosity. Thank you for this!
This was a very wise person she found the words without blessing her it shows their are mene was to a problem it's in the way you approach them. I love the way these stories are handed down if it was not for people like you it would be lots for ever. So I thank you so much for sharing 😊 have a wonderful day.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for loving the story, too. I agree with you completely that she was very wise. May we and all of us be as wise and loving!
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Well I'm just gladdened to hear a good stepmother story. In popular culture, it appears to me, the evil stepmother is given prominence.
My second wife was a very kind and nurturing stepmother to my previous daughters. When we produced a son I was careful to spend individual time with my daughters so as they didn't feel left behind. Inasmuch I was enraptured in that precious newborn glow, as indeed my daughters were, I made to keep doing the special things unique to us.
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That's a beautiful example of creating a family with great care, awareness, and love, and thank you so much for sharing it! It really strikes me that the possibility here, the marvelous invitation, is to create MORE love - and it sounds like that's exactly what you all did together. Hats off to loving stepmothers, stepfathers, stepchildren, and blended families everywhere who take this invitation to love each other.