POV: Stay connected through stories  This article originally
appeared in the August issue of Capital District Pages.  An old
Norwegian saying wisely tells us, “It is the duty of the present
to convey the voices of the past to the ears of the future.”
Once upon a summer night, a mother putting her children to bed
suddenly changed course and declared there would be no bedtime
book read. The mother, whisking a blanket off the bed, ordered
the children to follow her. The children lined up like ducklings
behind their mother, and together through the house and out the
door they marched. Outside in the summer night air, the mother
flung the blanket on the ground and the children instinctively
sat down wondering what would come next. Without even a hint of
whining, they had successfully escaped their beds and that
annoying stream of light that always came through the window at
summer bedtimes. As their mother began to tell them a story from
a familiar fairytale, they could hardly believe their good
fortune. There th