Looking to make sense of this world? Find a bit more balance in the social dialogue? Feel part of a wider community?

 

Then, let’s explore what it is … to be a person in this world and what we might want to do about that together.

 

With stories, poems and ‘character sketches’, Kevin Alan McGill, Storyteller Poet, shares insights gained from a lifelong fascination with people, people going about the business of being people.

 

Each episode of this series will combine with the next to create a Spoken Word Album. The hope is for a community in which when we connect with others we respectfully listen to and work at understanding each other.

 

This premiere episode focuses on the emergence of Self-Awareness and one path upon which we have been treading.

 

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Let’s have a look at What It Is!

 

Premiere Episode Transcript …

 

(Chime)

 

Welcome to “What It Is”. I’m Kevin Alan McGill, Storyteller Poet

 

Think of this podcast series as a “spoken word album”, presented one piece at a time. After eight or so episodes, this album will be complete. Then we will move onto the next one.

 

Now, some poets write about love and loss … romance, nature, mysticism, maybe personal or political grievances. And that’s great.

 

However, my work reflects my lifelong fascination with people, people going about the business of being people.

 

So, with stories and poems and what I call ‘character sketches’, we will be exploring what it is to be a person in this world and what we might want to do about that together.

 

So let’s have a look at What It Is.

 

(Theme music)

 

Where shall we begin?

 

Well, at the beginning, of course.

 

In the primeval vast, self-awareness dawned on Humankind.

 

Sounds morphed into words, words into meaning, creating order within the chaos, kindling a future beyond the moment.

 

Humankind watched … and they learned … and they decided.

 

Some watched lightning striking the dry grasslands, igniting thoughts of possibility.

 

Possibility evolved into plan.

 

Lightning’s fire was harnessed, bound to humankind’s will.

 

And lit the way through the darkness yet perhaps not beyond.

 

This was the dawn of realized power.

 

The belief of humankind as masters of their universe.

 

Greed flourished. Mass murder was born.

 

And perhaps the lightning chuckled,

 

Or perhaps the lightning sobbed,

 

For perhaps lightning is its own plan.

 

And peace remains in the shadows.

 

(Chime)

 

Let’s talk a bit about peace.

 

The mourning dove’s

unseen whisper

softly sounds

in the silence

of a Sunday morning.

 

I wondered when the concept of Peace.

 

was first conceived.

 

Peace not of submission.

 

Peace as being.

 

The destination and the journey.

 

Birth of a notion.

 

I don’t know

how the concept of

such peace arose

within the fearful

morass

of thoughtless survival

 

I don’t know

whether any such peace can be

everlasting.

 

I know only

that

ideas

can weather rocks

to soft sand,

even as new rocks appear.

 

Peace was conceived.

 

Let it be delivered.

 

(Chime)

 

Okay so, such are the words of a Storyteller Poet who has learned the value of a poem, the worth of a story.

 

To those who wish to strip us of our humanity, I say “not today”.

 

And hey, if you want to experience more of my “people” explorations and my work on Democracy, head over to kevinalanmcgill.com

 

Thank you for listening. Let’s get together again to explore more “what it is”.