Category Archives: Storytelling, Mindfulness, Peace Making, Engagement and Restorative Imagination

THE WILD BRIDE The Handless Maiden is a controversial fairytale.   It was collected and reconstructed by the Brothers Grimm, and left out of their later collections. It has a disturbing violence and tragic sense of loss that makes it … Continue reading »

While waiting for the New Jersey Transit Train to arrive at Penn Station in Manhattan, I sat  on a bench to think about the sudden death of a friend, to take in how mysterious life is, and how to accept … Continue reading »

The first time I fell in love was at a summer camp in 1965. My mother was increasingly unhappy  ten months after a crippling stroke. She was only 39 years old. Each time I thought of her that summer  I … Continue reading »

This entry was inspired by a conversation on the storytell listserv about childhood shopping memories. A man went in search of beauty. He could not find it anywhere until he was told to visit a woman in a cave on … Continue reading »

I feel thankful for Giving. To give is ultimate mind protection: if we can give, we have something within of great value and worth that can be offered. The Giving is also the nurturer of joy. To be able to … Continue reading »

Often I would walk down the road from the resort we were staying at in Zanzibar, Ras Nungwi, away from the splendid ocean toward the village. Ras Nungwi was a remarkably beautiful and quiet place with small thatched roof cottages … Continue reading »

Part VII The only one who knows where the heart is kept is the Giant. The only one who knows how to get there is the Wolf. The one who travels there and retrieves the heart is the Prince. He … Continue reading »

PART VI “During the years we worked together she rarely talked about her own life for more than a few minutes without breaking off to tell such a story (traditional narrative). When she returned to her own personal experience, she … Continue reading »

PART V In the face of the too close to home tragedy of the shootings in Aurora, Colorado and the increasing violence in the Middle East and in so many other places in our world, I am offering these fragments … Continue reading »

There are pathways in and beneath each story unseen that provoke us into another kind of journey. Held by the unfolding story, like a psychic scaffolding, our own lives are illumined and expanded in perspective by the mirror of the … Continue reading »