"I Always Wondered Why Somebody Didn’t Do Something About That. Then I realized I Was Somebody." — Lily Tomlin

"I like the way stories and ideas are linked.  
Stories lead you to an idea, absolute perhaps or maybe just illustrative.  It’s like a condensed learning or perhaps the description of the learning that leads us to where we are today, the idea.  If we posit the idea out there without a story, then there is [...]

 …in an instance. Not in slow steady steps.
You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.’ -David Lloyd George

This week I made the conscious decision to mark my forehead - and I invite you to do the same.
(If you keep reading this will make sense. Though the rest of the world may make less sense).

Allow me to relay a story - "The Tainted Grain".
A king once told his prime minister, who was also [...]

"Not everything that counts can be counted, And not everything that can be counted counts"
An old favourite, but I find it useful to remind people when speaking of things like "profit" and "tangible quantifiable results". The qualitative, human, magical and mysterical are also important!

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They never stop asking me
"What will you be?–
A doctor, a dancer,
A diver at sea?"
 
They never stop bugging me:
"What will you be?"
As if they expect me to
Stop being me.
 
When I grow up I’m going to be a Sneeze
And sprinkle germs on all my enemies.
 
When I grow up I’m going to be a Toad
And dump on [...]

"There is a strong external pressure to conform and see the world in a dysfunctional way" (Michael Ray, The Highest Goal)
Who said ‘profit’ was a word with a business meaning? Who said the system we live in is like a machine? Inputs, outputs…no magic and mystery…
Take a moment to think how you are seeing yourself in [...]

As I went to view a website today there was an ad for Red Cross - donations to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
What occured to me in reading it was that this was asking for support for people in a developed country. This marks a significant shift, with faint reminesance of world war 2.
In [...]

Take a look at the people you respect most for their opinions, or the leaders you revere and I will hazard a guess that they are good storytellers.
Lately I have been musing on stories often (as part of my commitment to studying the narrative this year) and thought I’d make sure I kept some of the ideas thus [...]