I’m Lana—a visual storyteller and literary narrator drawn to the quiet dignity of village life, the emotional tactility of handmade art, and the symbolic language of memory. Storyvials is my offering to the grown-up soul: a sanctuary of tales shaped by ancestral echoes, spiritual inquiry, and the gentle restoration of identity.

Each story is a small vessel—painted, collaged, or whispered—rooted in humble lore and stirred by modern resonance. I work in digital painterly aesthetics that resemble oil, watercolor, paper puppetry, and subtle animation to evoke intimacy and emotional safety. My narrators speak with broken charm and quiet sincerity, inviting you into a parlor of symbols, rituals, and soul-weather.

I believe storytelling can be a form of mercy. That symbols can heal. That even in a noisy world, we can remember who we were before the forgetting.

My hope is to help restore emotional literacy and ancestral hospitality through art, and especially, story, and to dismiss the ego quietly through simpler, though not unnuanced, language.

My original village tales collection is still growing, though you may see my videos on my channel, OldSoulsStoryVials, where my handle is KindredRye.