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All Stories Are the Same
This article was written by John Yorke and published in the Atlantic, January 2016. _____________________________________________________ From Avatar to The Wizard of Oz, Aristotle to Shakespeare, there’s one clear form that dramatic storytelling has followed since its inception. A ship lands on an alien shore and a young man, desperate to prove himself, is tasked […]
What is so great about Snapchat?
The story teller in me finds this review of Snapchat, and its power to threaten ubiquitous social media platforms such as Facebook, very interesting. As a neophyte Snapchat user what I can ascertain the key appeals to be, are: It’s ephemeral nature. Disappearing snaps and stories create a compulsion to share and view immediately. Stories. […]
Ancient Stories and Enactment
A previous post, One Thousand and One Nights, looked at how the classic Middle Eastern tale had much in common with the Biblical account of Esther and the origin of the Feast of Purim. In both accounts, the protagonist, the Queen, artfully delays the king and his judgement across several nights. In doing so, she not […]
Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last
A favourite blog of mine is Brain Pickings and I’ve shared posts on Bear Skin before. This post particularly interested me for the variety of perspectives on the significance of stories to our lives. Enjoy! ____________________________________________________________ Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last by Maria Popova “Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that […]
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The Soul of Relationship
One regularly hears the epithet that ‘communication is key’ to relationships. If you can truly listen, hear each others perspective, express your views – you can evade a multitude of woes. Learn each others love language, learn each others Myer-Briggs personality profile, understand each others’ family of origin narrative and so on. I recently complimented […]