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When Doc McConnell died on August 16, 2008, part of the beating heart of storytelling grew still. Only a week before, he had taken the stage at the National Storytelling Conference to the cheers and applause of a standing ovation. Though he had been ill, as soon as he began to spin the first tale, [Continue reading Remembering Doc McConnell] Michael Margolis posts a lot of good links on Facebook. Today’s was a blog entry from Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby. In the September 1, 2009 entry on his blog, Sivers wrote about a talk by Kurt Vonnegut, who explained “why people have such a need for drama in their life”. He blamed it on [Continue reading It’s no fairy tale] 2010 Olympic red mittens from k-ideas' Flickr photostream Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee members had many dreams when they began planning the 2010 winter games. One of them was to send the Olympic torch on a relay that would bring the flame to within 150 kilometres of every Canadian community. In a country the size of [Continue reading One Big Dream] We joined a group of friends last night, to watch the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Half were born in Canada. The rest of us hail from Australia, South Africa, England, and the U.S. But last night every one of us felt deeply proud of the land in which [Continue reading Olympic ceremony and Canada’s Big Story] |
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