The Crane Bag Podcast

Larger than words can say than rivers can bark or stones can weep, larger than drum larger than parades. www. JayLeeming.com

Silence mother of all things, dark water, all-embracing quiet out of which the worlds come shining. www. JayLeeming.com

A Crane Bag podcast live recording, which means clicking on "record" and seeing what happens next. Unplanned, unedited, straight into the flow where the lightning dazzles and failure and victory are two doorways which are the same doorway which you step through to find yourself in the new land. www. JayLeeming.com

Live storytelling recording by Jay Leeming made on 9-20-2026 and featuring a convocation of monkeys, the legendary meeting of Rumi and Shams of Tabriz and a visit with an Irish bard. No animals were harmed during this production. www. JayLeeming.com

A story from the Hausa people of Nigeria, told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. What is that in the trees? Slurp, slurp. I've been here before. I remember it all: the tree, the dog, the spear in my hand. And not far off a monstrous hunger which is hard to look at but perhaps makes this world.  www. JayLeeming.com

A story from the Venda people of northeastern South Africa, found in the book "African Myths and Tales" (1963, edited by Susan Feldman) and told by speaker-of-images Jay Leeming on the southern shore of Cayuga lake on September 25th, 2026. The journey is the destination.  www. JayLeeming.com

An exploration of the work of Larry Levis by storyteller, poet, and musician Jay Leeming.   www. JayLeeming.com

Stories from around the world brought into the here and now by storyteller, poet and musician Jay Leeming.

An exploration of the Mahabharata by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

Thoughts on composing a story for oral performance by Jay Leeming. "Not I, not I but the wind that blows through me" --D.H. Lawrence www. JayLeeming.com

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The stories never end they just curl their tails around themselves and sleep for awhile. Above them the leaves of the world tree flutter in the wind. The night wind that knows all the answers because it has no need of questions. Somewhere there's a moon, somewhere there's a farmer and his wife sleeping in a feather bed. She laughs once in her sleep and this wakes up the farmer; a moment later he f...

www. JayLeeming.com   This is day 73 from my "101 Days of Story," coming a bit late to the party due to a technical glitch. But ready to go!

This is day 72 from my "101 Days of Story," which is a bit late to the party due to a technical glitch.

www. JayLeeming.com   The story of Scheherazade from "Stories from 1001 Nights," told by Jay Leeming as part of the 101 stories in 101 days project all the beans but one and eternity has a hole in the side a little hatch out of which the clever person clambers with a bag containing a carrot and the stub-end of a candle who knows if he might be God in disguise?    

He has been washed clean of his gift. "King Midas and the Goat-Man" brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

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O wild man O wild woman   www. JayLeeming.com

A story is something which is not true that happens all the time. www. JayLeeming.com

Creosote, flouride, and a half a teaspoon of potassium nitrate. www. JayLeeming.com

Open mouth story jump out.   www. JayLeeming.com