Remember when you tell your story, you are speaking heart to heart, human to human, god to god.
Tag: authentic voice
Where Are You on Your Courage Meter?
How
courageous
are
you
feeling?
Stories Can Take You to Unexpected Places
“Every wound has a story.” Mark Matousek
Know Your Archetypes
“To know your archetypes” is “unquestionably the most important thing you can do,” urges Caroline Myss. How important is it to understanding your self, your motives, your behavior? “It’s like knowing your birth date!” she claims.
Story is the Road to Truth
“The Master was unmoved. To all their objections he would say, ‘You have yet to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story.’ ”
— Anthony de Mello in One Minute Wisdom
Express Yourself
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anaias Nin
Peace It Together Students Use Haiku to Express Their Experience of Self-Exploration in Film
Reena Lazar is the Executive Director of Peace It Together, a program for students which
provides a unique dialogue and filmmaking program that offers youth the opportunity to connect deeply with their so-called “enemy” while co-creating short films that can be used as peace-building tools throughout the world.
Listen to some students express their experience in this program in haiku form. Clearly the program had a powerful impact on them.
Maya Angelou and son Guy Johnson Talk Writing
The Writing Life: Maya Angelou and son Guy Johnson Live It
This conversation between two accomplished writers who speak with the ease of mother and son about something so rich and full as living the writer’s life moves you to write.
- Maya Angelou, poet and woman phenomally
- Guy Johnson, poet and novelist
Listen for the gems casually thrown out as their love and respect for the power of the word and the stories about us they tell is revealed in the artful and playful dialogue. Pick the emeralds and diamonds out of the air and hold them for a lifetime of wealth and beauty.
Sometimes trickery heals.
How’s this for a writing lesson?
The Power of Finding Your Voice: No Better Example
This documentary blew my mind. I kept trying to imagine this in an American classroom. Would we be so free? Would the teacher have such latitude? Would the children cooperate, grow, and learn? Would the parents allow it? But it does show how the power of writing can instruct the body, heart, and mind. Sheer genius.
