A story is an amazing gift. There is joy and creativity in the both the making of the story and its telling.
In the modern era Augmented Storytelling offers new opportunities of exchange and transformation in the act of story telling. Stoeis can be told from afar, and they can be brought alive through the tending of many particpants. In this process of gifting the inner power of story telling can be restored and transformed. We call this transformation rewilding.
Each of these is not just “admin” but a form of story or shared attention. When it happens, the system records a smiley linked to that person and that project. - Flowers move money. - Smileys move time, attention and narrative.
# Children As Story Makers
# Elders And Distant Schools As Receivers
- Receivers of Flowers - Two Streams and the Two Keys Rule - Elder Participation
# How A Project Blooms
# Extending Watering With Smiles The strict mapping between flowers and money, smileys and story makes the pattern portable. - Any place you see small monetary contributions, you can ask what flowers they might form. - Any place you see people sharing stories or time, you can ask how smileys could be recorded and honoured. - Any project that risks being “just fundraising” can attach a smiley layer to keep the human exchanges central.
Watering With Smiles keeps both streams visible. Flowers prove that the structure is supported. Smileys prove that the humans are connected. Only together do they grow something worth calling a school project.