technomadic
notes from the ever-emerging field
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laugh till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés (via Rebekah) -
Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn’t make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the *other* side.
— Haruki Murakami -
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
— Muriel Rukeyser -
Institutions learn from studies; communities learn from stories.
— John McKnight -
In what we are calling “creative restoration,” it is not a restoration to an idealized past - a golden age - that is sought or that is possible. By creative restoration we mean psychologically-minded cultural work and culturally-minded psychological work that crafts psyche and world in the image of the deeply desired; that provides a healing context where what has been torn can be reimagined and sutured in concert with others.
— Helene Schulman Lorenz and Mary Watkins, “Individuation, Seeing-through, and Liberation: Depth Psychology and Colonialism”(Source: blank)
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
— Hannah Arendt -
‘Think about the word destory,’ the man said. ‘Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That’s re-story. Do you know that only two things have been proven to help survivors of the Holocaust? Massage is one. Telling their story is another. Being touched and touching. Telling your story is touching. It sets you free.’
— Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop
