Quote for Today: Katherine E. Standefer
“In life as in story,” writes Arthur Frank, “one event is expected to lead to another.” Our medical system has sold us a story of remedy, progress, technology, professionalism, and …
“In life as in story,” writes Arthur Frank, “one event is expected to lead to another.” Our medical system has sold us a story of remedy, progress, technology, professionalism, and …
Do not settle for living a version of your life designed by another. You are not meant to be gatekeeper or the holder of secrets and shame. You are here …
“Oh,” the girl said, shaking her head. “Don’t be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You …
Bringing a novel to light – revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air – linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time – …
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
We are thrilled to present a new monthly online series of Synkroniciti Soirées, gatherings held via Zoom to share creative endeavors and nurture our sense of community. Each event will …
I have read the story of a tribe in southern Africa called the Babemba in which a person doing something wrong, something that destroys this delicate social net, brings all …
We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths …
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling …
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re …