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- How Bimbo the Snip’s Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed
Carl Sandburg was a favorite author in my house. My parents loved his poetry and my mother loved to read us stories from “The Rootabaga Stories”. Her favorite was “How The Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away.” My favorite is “How Bimbo the Snip’s Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed.” I hope you like it too.
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
9 min - Three Billy Goats GruffDid you grow up with this story? Of course you did, as did I! When I started telling as a new storyteller the Three Billy Goats Gruff was a request story – one that children always wanted to hear. After so many retellings it has emerged as my favorite tale of group action to combat a problem.
Note: This is a Norwegian tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in the 1840’s.
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
6 min - The Tortoise and The Hare
This is another of Aesop’s well known fables. In a world of constant speed-up and multi-tasking, it is good to remember that “Slow and steady wins the race.”
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
4 min - The Body
I look for fables when I have a need to get a quick reminder of ancient wisdom. They always help me find perspective.
Such a story is Aesop’s fable, “The Body.” Enjoy it on several different levels!
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
4 min - The Little Red Hen
A story for the harvest! “The Little Red Hen: is one of the standard European folktales we tell to children, read to children and act out with children. I always enjoy listening to it, reading it and of course telling it.
A question: which one of the animals do you relate to most?
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
7 min - The Fox and the Grapes
Grapes…I have always loved grapes. These days we buy them from the Park Slope Food Co-op, organic, from Chile or some such place. I remember so fondly the Concord grapes taken fresh off the vine, warm and sweet in the sun, that my best friend Stephanie Argyris and I stole from her parents’ backyard grape arbor. Yummy!
“The Fox and the Grapes” is an adaptation of a story from the Midrash.
L’shana tova!
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
9 min - Animal Stories
The animal stories of the fabulists Aesop and Jean La Fontaine are simple and profound. These fables are as relevant for us today as we go about our lives as they were in the times they were told and written.
What are the truths you find in them?
For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
7 min - The Overcoat
This story is derived from a song from the Yiddish Theater, “I Had a Little Overcoat” or “Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl”.
It is a popular story, for reasons you will understand when you hear it! There are many versions told by storytellers of different heritages, and two beautiful books for children (Something From Nothing, by Phoebe Gilman; and Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback) have been published.
Listen, and enjoy!
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
6 min - A Bundle of Sticks
The fables attributed to Aesop spoke to the silliness as well as the deep injustices in his world, and continue to do so in our world today.
I particularly love this story, “A Bundle of Sticks.” I hope you do too!
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante.
4 min - King Tumbo and Mr. MonkEvery culture has stories of silly people, ridiculous animals, and strange beliefs. In Eastern European Jewish folklore, many of these tales of foolish folk take place in the town of Chelm. Thank goodness for Chelm. We the audience get to laugh, think, and decide how things really should be.
And of course, we all know foolish people, and foolish places. In story, and in real life. Why, near the small New Jersey shore town where I grew up, the elected officials would tell the citizenry over and over that a certain road with broken cement near the town center would be re-paved. And, of course, the citizens believed them. Each year, “It is just about to happen,” the mayor and town council would say. “Trust us!” And, year after year, there was another excuse to not pave the road. “Too expensive. Someone absconded with the money. It is not a convenient time to do this.” Every election the same people were elected. And the road was not paved. How silly was that? A whole town! Can you imagine?
This week’s story comes from Southeast Asia. It is about a very silly animal. And a very silly predicament. Now, you tell me – which animal is the silly one? Is it the monkey? I mean, what a silly creature a monkey is! Or is it another animal? The mouse, the cat, the elephant? Do you know a story of silly people, or silly animals. Email me and let me know what you think!
Enjoy!
Robin
The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, with Alice Even Cohen, Rob Kaplan, Skip LaPlante
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About Beyond Chelm: Stories for Every Age with Robin Bady
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Humans are, the anthropologists say, the storytelling animal. Drawn in to the worlds created and the adventures offered by the spoken word, we hear our history, our culture and our ethics. We learn, we think, we laugh, we cry – and we do it as a community of storytellers and story listeners. So sit back, relax, listen, and let the stories take you on the remarkable journey of metaphor, music and magic of the Jewish storytelling tradition and beyond!
Beyond Chelm is a bi-weekly program of Jewish and global stories told by award-winning storyteller Robin Bady.