Calling All Followers

While reading Tribes by Seth Godin, I came across the idea that any movement of people needs only one thousand true fans in order to get started. This movement, though, one that celebrates the small, flaunts the less-than-flattering, and questions the orthdox, is going to aim much lower than one thousand followers. (I guess that being immersed in the culture of Underachieverville can eventually take a toll on even the most Type A of individuals.)

In ecology* there's this theory called the 10% rule: In any given food chain only 10% of the energy emassed in only level is available to the next.

So, here's my plea: I'm asking for a 10% rule here. Within the next year I'm shooting for one hundred reader/followers to join our movement and to unite under the banner of "Stories by Allison: You've got to be kidding me!" Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your coworkers...if they are not already members of the first group.

I have a dream of one day becoming a professional storyteller, and I fully recognize that crazy stuff doesn't just happen to me, and I'd love to tell your stories, too. Names can always be changed to protect the innocent. So, let's sit down and swap stories for the mental health benefit of people everywhere.

*Did you know that the word eco- stems from the Greek work oikos, meaning house or home. Ecology, then, is the study of our home, the Earth. We also get the word economy from this root. Economy in Jesus' day referred to the way in which families organized and orchestrated their households. Perhaps if families today understood the ancient meaning behind their personal economy, our present national economy would be playing out differently.