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As long as we look out at each other only through the masks of our composure, we are looking through hard eyes. But as the masks drop and we see the suffering and courage and brokenness and deeper dignity underneath, we truly start to respect each other as fellow human beings. ~ F. Scott Peck, [Continue reading No longer strangers, no longer afraid] Artist Isa D’Arleans is originally from France but has made her home in Seattle for many years. I met her when visiting a friend there. She is vivacious, talented, and a deep pool of thought. Recently, she started a blog, Live In Colors that explores what it means to be fully alive. She is also [Continue reading What color/colour are your stories?] During the last few years I’ve had the good fortune to get to know several boys with Aspberger’s syndrome. They are bright and inquisitive. They have a strong sense of social justice. They are interesting people to be around. It is neither because of nor in spite of their Aspberger’s that I like them. I just [Continue reading I will always thank you for that] Nearly a million linguaphiles subscribe to A.Word.A.Day Today’s word came with an apt quote on storytelling. When my daughter was little and scraped a knee, what brought the swiftest diversion wasn’t candies or toys, but stories. Stories soothe us, teach us, take us to other worlds. Even when we grow up, our hunger for stories remains. [Continue reading Hunger for stories] Google is always thinking up some new way to keep people coming back to its search engine. Frankly, they’re pretty brilliant. One of Google’s latest brilliant ideas is Google Search Stories. You’ve probably seen the one about the American finding love in Paris. Now they’ve made it easy for anyone to create a search story. So I [Continue reading Memoir in seven searches] Mural of John the Baptist, Antim Monastery, Bucharest, Romania, from Flickr Creative Commons In yesterday’s entry in A Storied Career, blogger Kathy Johnson put a link to Jonathan Odell’s article in Commonweal, “Coming Home: A Gay Christian Speaks to Fundamentalists“. It is the story of Odell’s invitation to speak to “a Midwestern seminary with a [Continue reading Speaking Truth] In this extraordinary talk for TED [Technology, Entertainment, Design: Ideas worth spreading], Nigerian storyteller and writer Chimamanda Adichie begins: “I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call ‘the danger of a single story’.” Though most of the faces around her childhood home matched her [Continue reading Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story] A big vote of thanks to Publicity Hound’s Joan Stewart for linking the video below to her latest newsletter. What a beautiful story to end the year. Ricochet failed the training to become a service dog. Bird chasing was just too instinctual to his joyous nature. So the woman who worked with him looked for other [Continue reading From Service Dog to SURFice Dog] “When we become fully aware of the stories that make up our lives, we also find ourselves being much more careful about the kind of information we want to let through the portal of our eyes and ears.” Jim Nollman, Spiritual Ecology: A Guide for Reconnecting with Nature Years ago I read a book by Elizabeth Stone that I’ll likely refer to from time to time. In Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us, Stone dives into the mythology we create for our own lives. A new edition of the 1989 book was issued in 2004 so I’m clearly not [Continue reading Editing our stories] |
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