Posts tagged "stories"

Birthdays and challenges

“Today, August 4, is President Obama’s birthday. As we wish Happy Birthday to Barack, we may remember how the world stopped to watch him step into this office… What an overwhelming job he’s tackled. He needs us, those people– those many among us– who are willing to help slay the dragons, yet we cannot slay...

Telling our stories: Part 2

If you’d like to order Becoming now, just go to The Write Room New Titles. You won’t regret it! We are continually choosing filters and frames for our lives, whether we know and acknowledge it or not. Don’t make the mistake of underestimating or minimizing the power of stories: they resonate throughout our whole being....

Telling our stories: why and how it matters

“Words are how we think: story is how we link. Memory is the story of what happened and is where the meaning resides. Story is a map: the map that got one person through gets the next person through.” (Christina Baldwin) We are continually choosing filters and frames for our lives, whether we know and...