Story is compiled meaning, kid, a device that can help you reframe and reinterpret your life, helping to heal any pain connected with memories or beliefs that keep you here on the track, this place in your mind that prevents you from moving forward.

(can put story medicine here…)And ya know.. ? Story medicine…”cuz ya know, I got quite the funny bone.. it cackcles,tickling itself..in turn affecting my mood.. (how by making me feel..—having no shortage of bad jokes, “Story medicine is What the good ol’ Indigenous of the world did.. tell stories.. when one member of the community, they’d share a story to support that member; so same thing, kid–it’s the stories we tell ourselves that get ourselves moving after being stuck emotionally. We experience an event in our lives that has us feeling lousy, and we interpret that event in all sorts of ways that keeps us stuck and feeling low.. … plays a series of low notes having me feel miserable again.

skin in the race..

…..(in this game..)

“Game? Isn’t this a track and not a sports game?” I ask.

“Same difference..” the Skeleton says cooly.

“Same difference? Then you’re not much of an athlete., then again, neither am I, I think to myself while I’m thinking to myself.., ” so how’d you end up being my referee coach… musician..and what do you mean by being prisoners?

It shrugs.. “Then let me correct myself.. *ahem*, clears its throat, skin in the race, the Skeleton says, sarcastically. As for sports– I don’t know much”, it gets its knees up from the ground. “But I do know something….say, have ya ever heard of something called sports medicine? That’s my area of expertise.. Story Medicine–not Sports medicine .How’s that pun there for ya?” It turns its..tips hat.. “.. (first aid kit..)