The Storyteller's Journal
featuring the music & ministry of Layton Howerton
Layton Howerton... Singer, songwriter and storyteller
There’s
a sense in which the texture of a landscape can channel and shape the
people who live there. The rugged, desolate mountains of Wyoming tower
like wrecked spires, dwarfing the human inhabitants, and somehow, by
their mute presence, drawing attention to the vast emptiness around
them.
The open spaces provide no distraction for the mind, and the immense
scale of the natural world, the backdrop against which life is lived,
stands as a perpetual witness that we humans are small and fragile and
finite. It is a good place, Layton Howerton says, to go when you
surrender.
“I’m more a reporter than a writer,”
Layton says in summation. “I look at people, I look at my own
life, I observe, and the songs come. The stories are always there, you
just have to look and listen to find them.