by Suzanne Whitby | Feb 26, 2021 | Podcast, Walk the Tortoise
Enjoy this narrative poem by John Godfrey Saxe. What does an elephant look like to YOU? Listen now https://media.blubrry.com/random_acts_of_suzanne/p/www.buzzsprout.com/1745684/8259468.mp3 Why this poem? In my (no so) secret life as an oral storyteller, I often tell...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 26, 2021 | Podcast, Random Acts of Kindness, Random Acts of Suzanne, Thoughts, Walk the Tortoise
It’s been a while and a great deal has happened since I decided to record something for you – Coronavirus, the final severing of the UK from the EU, the end of Trump and the beginning of Biden – and it made me think of a book that I inherited from my...
by Suzanne Whitby | Feb 28, 2020 | Podcast, Walk the Tortoise
Today, a VERY short tale from American author O Henry. Listen now https://media.blubrry.com/random_acts_of_suzanne/p/www.buzzsprout.com/1745684/8259410.mp3 Why this story? I came across this whilst roving the mysterious place that is The Internet and it left me trying...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 28, 2020 | Podcast, Walk the Tortoise
A few years ago, I heard a poem called “Hokusai Says”. It was written by the rather wonderful and inspiring Roger Keyes, art historian, Hokusai scholar, and co-founder of York Zen whilst he was in Venice in 1990. It came to him as was making notes for the “Young...
