Tag Archives: Storytelling

FMM 7 12 2024 Sustainable Storytelling

July 12, 2024 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 1 Comment

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~ Ben Okri. My father was a storyteller.  He was also a Minister, and so had the opportunity and the venue, each Sunday morning, to intersperse his preaching with […]

FMM 7 14 17 Tell me a Story

July 14, 2017 · by · in comfort, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”~ Hannah Arendt.  When your father is a minister you grow up seeing him as a man of authority, commanding space, making pronouncements.  More than the average father, his word carries weight.  People defer to him.  Teachers used to hold that kind of space too, traditionally in […]