Sweet & Sour Love

Bard

Love stories. Have you thought of having a storyteller at your wedding? Love sought. Love won. Love lost. Love won again. Yes, we think we know the story, but isn't it lovely to hear it again? And as we go around the world and across the centuries looking for love in all the right places, some surprises show up. Sometimes the prince does not get the princess. Sometimes the princess would prefer to keep the talking frog. Sometimes love brings solutions to problems that will leave you feeling wiser, sometimes sadder. Remember when you first fell in love?


PEONY PRINCESS

Young Fang was a poet. Well, he was a country gardener really, for who can make a living as a poet? But he wrote poetry and had the soul of a poet. Fang worked for a rich mandarin whose entire household lived in his city house most of the year, leaving only Fang to tend the garden of his country house in the mountains. It was a good job for him as it left time for poetry and the daydreams of youth. One spring, he sat under his favorite plant in the garden, a peony whose large flowers were of the most delicate shade of apricot pink. He had a poem in his mind, brush and ink, but no paper. A peony petal fell into his lap and he took the suggestion and wrote the poem on the large petal. "What a shame there is no one with whom to share it!" Then the sweet woice of a woman spoke behind him. "I would be happy to hear your poem. . ."