The other week I posted my favourite quote at the moment "Relax – Nothing is under Control" … Ok, so let’s say we accept that as true. Nothing is under control. But what if your situation feels more extreme than usual. If things really are spinning away differently from how we ‘planned’ or ‘assumed’. How [...]

"Relax… Nothing is Under Control"  – Mr. Booja-Booja     via Scott (thank you!) who connected with me via Booja Booja and boojabooja’s cards – see this post… And here are a few more of the older original cards – courtesy of Scott again…     thanks also to PW for the first booja-booja scent! [...]

Happy New Year – and thank you to all of you for being such great readers and friends! Last year was certainly a year of Story! As such, these days I get a lot of emails and things about story and storytelling from friends (thanks one and all – keep them coming please). And I [...]

                                Image: Perseverance (c) Harry Araten  Backstory / Story with image  Please note: not all this backstory relates to image/notion above – you may prefer to scroll down to ‘related stories‘ section…   *** "When is the best time to plant [...]

"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?" – question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ‘s Collaboration Day – thanks for a great conversation all!) Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol I am SO mindful that such questions as this one bring us back to what actions we CAN [...]

The Point of Life is Life – Goethe “Don’t search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live [...]

  Maxim of the ever-wonderful Danish mathematician and poet, the late Piet Hein – author of some of my favourite poems, Grooks. (Gruks). See below for my two favourites – The Road to Wisdom and T.T.T. – though there are many more I enjoy! Read some more here. And here. And a bit more about [...]

      ***  I tried to write this post on movement and the space between thrice – and lost it each time. Rather than try to again recreate my lengthy notes and thoughts I have decided to put some notes I had written elsewhere below and took this as an opportunity to first share [...]

  ‘We dance around in a ring and suppose…                                 The secret sits in the middle and knows.’   – Robert Frost – (I first saw this line via Alan Stewart in 2005)  * "Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories insidestories and [...]

You are the expert of your own story! – quote via working with / learning from Barrie