The
Folk Traditions Store
In Savannah's Historic District
12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.
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In Savannah's Historic District 12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.
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What activities compete with a tradition? What activities use the same resources? What activities replace the tradition? Competition is not necessarily bad. If an activity is usually found amidst various competitors, it can be more dangerous to eradicate the competitors than leave them. Some activities grow with modest speed and with such strength than they get the lion's share of a person's resources. Like the lion, these are dominant wherever they are found. Very often, these are the professions or trades of their users. Many times a dominant activity can last for most of a lifetime. But it is also common that what worked for the first few decades of a person's life may cease to be suitable. The single-tracked person is more vulnerable than one who has kept up in a variety of activities. Professions or trades from one time in the history of a locale become niche activities of later times. Single-tracked locales are more vulnerable than those that developed a variety of resources. A central lesson of folk healing is that it is necessary to treat all aspects of life. Medicine that focuses on just one aspect of mind, body, spirit or environment will fail. The balanced life reaps from the abundant variety of nature and culture. To learn more about the balance that learning a folk tradition can bring, find books and videos that focus on traditional work settings, folk skills and folk healing. If you were to choose one activity to provide an example of the use of folk traditions to balance lives, what would it be? Because of its universality and unchallenged ability to soothe performer and audience alike, we have chosen acoustic music. To learn the role of music in illustrating how folk traditions can serve your life, click on music. |
Preserve a tradition. Grow roots, significance, harmony and balance.
Copyright © 2003-2005
The Folk Traditions Store, David Dirlam, Webmaster
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