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Computer graphics are so sophisticated these days it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake. These two videos are clearly in the latter category. No one watching them would believe a squirrel can play hacky sack or a penguin become a table tennis whiz. The ads are no less fun for that. Both tell stories. [Continue reading Our power to manipulate stories] It’s been two decades since I copied the quotation below from Jim Nollman’s book, Spiritual Ecology. At the time I wrote it down, I substituted “storyteller” for “artist”. I was prompted by the question so many children asked when I told stories in schools, “Is that true?” I finally settled on this answer: “All [Continue reading Storytelling and science] The oil spill in the Gulf is everybody’s story, but from our distant vantage points, we are not always sure how to influence it.
NASA image on June 26, courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video’s Flickr photostream I write on Day 68 of one of the world’s most horrendous environmental disasters, with little to [Continue reading Twittering a new story] 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?] Having moved so many times in my adult life, I’ve rarely had the chance to really connect with “my” doctors. Some make it easier than others. They are the ones who know how to listen, who want to know the context of whatever symptoms walk through the door. They want to know my story. A doctor [Continue reading Hey, Doc, I’m a story, not just a symptom] Stories matter. They matter so much we will cling to them even when they are no longer working, even when they are contrary to the evidence of our own eyes. I’m thinking of a story, of course. In this case, it’s the story of two neighbours. The location is Rochester, New York. The time is the [Continue reading Same street, different story] When I read Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, I knew I had found an author who spoke the language of my spirit. So I looked for other books by William Kittredge. In Owning It All I found passage after passage that resonated for me. This is one of them. Fortunately, his books are still [Continue reading The unpatterned restlessness] “Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They’re taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they [Continue reading Storytelling is a healing process] “There is no conclusion in science; it is a continual and recursive process of story testing.” ~ Paul Grobstein Eggs Benedict. Boiled eggs. Fried, scrambled, poached, coddled eggs. Huevos rancheros, omelettes, eggnog. Just listing them makes me drool. Yellow and white killers in a crusty shell? Or nature’s little health miracle? It’s all in the science, [Continue reading Science as story] In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle. ~Ursula Le Guin, Dancing at the [Continue reading Bite till the blood runs] |
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