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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] 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] 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] [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] “Australian Aborigines say that the big stories-the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life-are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.” Robert Moss, Dreamgates “So storytelling is central to community building and maintenance. It can also build new kinds of community. If stories define our communities, then changing the stories would change the community.” Jay Wentworth, “Coral Atolls and Cosmic Tales” “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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