Folk Art

Summer is fast approaching and it is less than 2 weeks away for the schools to close down. My little one is so enthused about the whole thing - and keeps making plans on what she wants to do and how she is going to do that and this.

Last evening she came up with ideas on how she will set up a lemonade stand and how she will run it! I was pretty amused to hear that she will set it up very close to the common area play structure behind my house so that she can get more kids to buy the lemonade! BTW, she is pricing the lemonade at $20 a glass - pretty pricey I would say! Talk about entrepreneurship :-)

I on my part have decided that I will spend the last couple of weeks of July exclusively with her - but, that also brings with it the additional responsibility of what I will entertain her with...

So, I was thinking of various ideas - and I wanted to start off with telling her some folk tales and also that together we try and learn a few folk songs!

I have to do ground work to get to that point and have begun doing my digging around:-)

The folk songs, the stories, the theatre and everything else associated with it is so rich and unadulterated! The melodious songs have pearls of wisdom embedded within them; life truths and morals weaved into those very interesting stories!

But the more I look around, the more I see how fast we are losing all of that knowledge that was accumulated over centuries - there isn't much patronising done in preserving that wealth!

I'll run a small series on this in my postings to come...

On the songs - I love this particular song/story - it's in Kannada. Watch/listen to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck7XA3ovajs&feature=related