for we are story makers, not just storytellers* Robin Wall Kimmerer
To forgive yourselves and others constantly is necessary. Not only is everyone screwed up,, but everyone screw up.** Anne Lamott
I think that allowing ourselves a new story may be an act of forgiveness, a new beginning, Whether the story change is major or minor. There’s more than one “Once upon a time” available to us, Forgiveness being a larger story for our personal tales to be held within, So here I am, Once again upon a time …
You have travelled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through.* John O’Donohue
When I let go of the destination for a moment … When I let go of the destination for a moment … When Ilet go of the destination for a moment … When I let go of thedestination for a moment … When I let go of the destination fora moment … When I let go of the destination for a moment … When I let go of the destination for a moment …
*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: For One Who is Exhausted).
It’s a grand thing to get leave to live.* Nan Shepherd
Your big break. Some people get one. Most people don’t. But if you’re reading this, it means that you’ve received more than one, perhaps a countless number of, little breaks.** Seth Godin
I guess we’d all agree on how it’s important to live before we die, Given the biggest break of all – That of being here. The odds were stacked against us, but here we are with daily options on how we want to live. The Windigo is a Anishinaabe legendary monster that exists to consume and consumes to exist, But the more the Windigo ingests the hungrier it becomes: Windigo is the name for that within us which cares more for its own survival than for anything else.^ Robin Wall Kimmerer sees the Windigo’s footprints in all of our corporate and personal destructiveness: industrially-blemished lakes, deforested hillsides, coalmine-wasted countryside, poisoned waterways, New kitchens replaced with newer kitchens, Clothes we never wear, food going to waste. The Windigo does not live, perhaps does not even survive, but only exists: What native people once sought to rein in, we are now asked to unleash in a systematic policy of sanctioned greed.^ None of us have failed to be taken in by this monster, but there’s another part to our story – Perhaps we have noticed how we recover when we give, When we notice our talents, energies and values, turning these outwards in giftedness to others, we find life is richer.
When in doubt, come back to the stories.* Chris Guillebeau
When we see in new ways and have the courage to speak it, we access a deep power of the soul.** Philip Newell
Some have forgotten and wandered away from their story, Others have not explored theirs. But we all have a story, the best place to return to when we are lost.
He views his musical practice as a chance to enrol others in a journey, and the volunteers in his orchestras find that this journey -the chance to lean into possibility, to fail, to connect, to hear and to be heard – changes their lives.* Seth Godin, of Ben Zander)
the only essential is this: the give must always move** Lewis Hyde
If you are passionately following your songline, it’s likely that you were influenced by one or more following theirs, Which also means that others may be inspired by you, To find and to follow their songline.
Our social patterns such that the successful man is not supposed to be afraid or bored or lonely. He must find this world the best of all worlds; in order to have the best chance for promotion he must repress fear as well as doubt, depression, boredom, or hopefulness.* Erich Fromm
These perigrini, as they were also known, viewed their wanderings, or peregrinations, as a process of seeking their places of “resurrection” – they were searching for their path of new beginnings.** Philip Newell
Before the path of fresh beginnings will appear, we must admit this is not where we want to be.
True originality in storytelling is the meeting of form and content.* Robert McKee
Brigid challenges us to be people on our knees, that is, people midwifing new births for this moment in time. The good news is that we do not have to create the births. Our role, rather, is to midwife what is trying to come forth from deep within the human soul.** Philip Newell
We are each capable of birthing something new; If we follow our must this will be the way of it. But as well as having something worth sharing, we also require a way to share it, else the rest of us will miss out – And as this is a sacred thing, we want to avoid that. If you can’t find the right container for your contents, There’ll be someone who’ll help you find one, or they have a container and are looking for some contents.
What you love to do with grow in you, so long as you stay true to who you are and allow yourself to change and develop freely.* Hugh Macleod
Pay attention to the world, and train yourself to notice the details that others miss. Rohit Bhargava
I must continue on a path of openness and change. Some may argue that I will be an insubstantial man, Blown this way or that by the next idea I meet, that I will lack belief and conviction. Yet it is in this tension that I am who I am, That we are who we are: When we both remain the same and change: Self-knowledge might be the most difficult of life’s rewards – the hardest to earn and the hardest to bear. To know yourself is to know that you are not an unassailable fixity amid the entropic storm of the universe but a set of fragilities in constant flux. To know yourself is to know that you are not invulnerable.^
Far too often in this confused world we are faced with choices, all of which are wrong, and the only thing we can do, in fear and trembling, is to choose the least wrong,, without pretending to ourselves that it is right. Madeleine L’Engle
Our hope lies not primarily in human reason and scientific analysis but in the untamed regions of intuition and human imagination within us.** Philip Newell
What to focus on? What to let go of? Which way to go? Where to remain? Where to leave? Who to listen to? Who to ignore? To be clear – And we want to be clear – Is not easy. The lack of clarity in which we find ourselves has a certain current and speed to it, Carrying us along, but, We can haul ourselves out and, for a moment, Listen, Listen to the untamed life within, More song than compass, Or poem, Distilling clarity from confusion.
THIN|SILENCE 
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