A story is like water
that you heat for your bath.
 
It takes messages between the fire
and your skin. It lets them meet
and it cleans you!
 
Very few can sit down
in the middle of the fire itself
like a salamander or Abraham.
We need intermediaries.
 
A feeling of fullness comes,
but usually it takes some bread
to bring it.
Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we [...]

Information is not Knowledge
(thanks for the reminder of this quote Stuart!)
Something people buying information management/knowledge management systems might want to remember - just because a system can deliver information cleanly and smoothly from one part of the world/company to another doesn’t mean the information itself is knowledge…
- that’s where I see storytelling coming in…but people [...]

"Life is a metaphor for Life" 
Thus said my dear friend and colleague Marge today.
And she was right. Brilliant and beautiful thought really! Makes me think of fractals and mirrors.
The context of the converstion was actually in relation to the role of context (environment/space) and their impact on us, and our abilities to be in dialogue…yet the quote [...]

"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. … The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." [...]

“The power of co-creativity – where two or more are gathered the future is created”
And it is more fun. (You might want to read this once you get started)

"…Inanna replied "I take them"
Fourteen times Enki raised his cup to Inanna.
Fourteen times he offered his daughtr five me, six me, seven me.
Fourteen times Inanna accepted the holy me"
I devoured the delicious story Inanna a few months ago and it continues to play itself in my mind. The tale Innana, for those unfamiliar (I was [...]

“Too many of us have lost touch with the fire of conversation. When we talk together, it is rarely with depth. For the most part, we see our conversations as either opportunities to trade information or opportunities to win points. Difficulties that might otherwise be resolved or even dissolved persist. And often we find we [...]

"Ned was the only one who thought to look up…"
One of the fabulous collection by Sloane Tannen, in a fun book I got a few years ago "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same". I was actually trying to find the image in the book that had an adorable edler chicken in a wheelchair, with presumably, his grandson, [...]

What is the difference between a regular soccer ball and the 2006 World Cup soccer ball?
Being a part of the world and all feel a bit strange not mentioning The World Cup, which starts today - now even! 
Yet I have little to add on the teams, the matches etc, other than knowing people going to the odd [...]

"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."– Al Rogers
I am realising that a lot of growth and fun and insight and frustration and mistakes happen when I am new to something… 

It made me consider that perhaps the [...]