Sunrise was so beautiful on North Battleground this week, we had to pull off the road and snap a photo. The sky was only this intense for a brief minute before the color faded and everything turned gray-white. We couldn't help but think of North Carolina storyteller, Donald Davis who has a story called, "Listening for the Crack of Dawn." We just sat there in a parking lot, marveling and listening for the "crack" of dawn to happen. All we heard was an ambulance which broke the magic and promptly snapped us back to reality. Off to our respective jobs we drove.
Davis tells the stories of his childhood, the ones handed down to him from his grandmother. Before becoming a professional storyteller, he was a Methodist minister in High Point for over twenty years. So, while he wasn't in Greensboro proper, he was in Guilford County. Imagine having a master storyteller as a preacher. Sleeping through his sermons would be impossible. Now that we think about, his stories, much more powerful when heard than read, have the structure of a sermon. We've had some technology glitches this week (one of which was that it would take 789 more hours to transfer our digital photos to an external hard drive and that the interaction couldn't be interrupted). Today is Friday and, this weekend, we're not going to do much more than listen for the crack of dawn!
Love this photo and the accompanying title. Thanks for introducing me to Donald Davis. He is a delightful storyteller.
Posted by: Jane Mitchell | Friday, February 08, 2013 at 09:59 AM
This might be the most intense sunrise photo I've ever seen, so very rich and deep.
I am pretty sure most Methodist Ministers are really storytellers at heart, they have to be to do their good work day in and day out. Glad this one found his second calling.
Posted by: Janisof So Cal | Friday, February 08, 2013 at 04:51 PM