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Guest Blog: “I Gotta Feeling”

By Jenny Walton
Second Story Intern

While driving last Saturday, I was listening to NPR which usually only happens when every other radio station is simultaneously playing “I Gotta Feeling,” another Black Eyed Pea lyrical conundrum that inexplicably incorporates mozoltov into the other two lines of the song: “I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night” and “let’s do it.” 

Anyway, back to NPR, I found myself listening to man read a ghost story that takes place in India and is about faceless people in the woods. As it turns out, the librarian I was listening to, David Wright, is a librarian at the central library in Seattle where he hosts a regular event called Thrilling Tales: A Storytime for

Grown Ups where adults come and eat their lunch while David reads. And I wondered why this sort of event isn’t more common. Or, if it is, why nobody’s told me about it.

A little different from Wright’s tales and a personal favorite of mine is Mark Twain’s essay on How to Tell a Story http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/twain.html. Twain tackles the art of humor especially as it relates to the telling of a story.

There’s plenty of research explaining why parents should read to their children. And we all at least know about the importance of continuing to read, but maybe we should reconsider the importance of reading to each other beyond childhood even if Dr. Seuss or Bill Peet remain the authors of choice. “Cause I gotta feeling . . .”

ByJim Walker

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