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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?] 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] 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] 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] [T]o make sense of our experience by creating a story is an essential human characteristic, and whatever story we tell at a given time reflects our level of consciousness. At one point we may tell a story of victimhood or revenge, and later one of compassion and empowerment. It is the exercise, moment to moment, [Continue reading Creating our stories] 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] |
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