Characters in stories are trying to accomplish what we are all trying to accomplish in our lives. They desire, as we do, to expand, preserve, and enhance the self as a powerful and autonomous agent in the world, and to relate, merge, and surrender the self to other selves within a loving and intimate community.* Dan McAdams
A little thin|silence–
A counterpoint to your uniqueness and delight–
A helpsake to your day–
Nothing more, nothing less.
*Dan McAdam’s The Stories We Live By.
