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manifesto

This week, I experienced a shift in myself. The gears have been turning for a long time but it took going to the edge to return to...

memory vs desire

The Inkstain A boy who didn't love me back gave away a shirt with an inkstain from eighteen years earlier. I wore the shirt and the stain...

in the margins

Solitude comes in a multitude of forms, some positive, some negative. Before the advent of technology, the world was quieter. There were...

the art of good questions

This week, a fellow storyteller told me how she crafted her wonderful story by asking five questions. The questions came from the 2016...

what is your origin story?

A thought struck me when I was reading a story called "The Deliverers of Their Country" in The Victorian Fairy Tale Book. It spun a tale...

spinning a yarn

This week saw me spinning more than most, for both work and leisure. Yet telling a story is no mean feat. There are so many parts to...

the saids and the unsaids

I've been wracking my head, asking myself "What did I learn this week?" About the world, about work, about life, about me. It's never as...

unseeding self doubt

Doubt is a feeling I've been grappling with this week. I've slid back into a previous life: same room, same work, same people. "It's as...

backstories are the beginning

'Tis the first week of 2018 and what struck me this week was the power of backstories. What are backstories? For actors a backstory is...

flicks and reads of 2017

Every year I collect flicks (films) and reads (books) that stay in my mind's eye. They stick around for various reasons, some of which I...

a gift for the heart

T'was the night before x-mas...And I have a gift for all the dreamers out there. It is a film by the legendary filmmaker Hayao...

is true freedom possible?

This week, I have a tale of two lives and one book that changed both... Once upon a time, when I was 12, I met a an elderly American...

cartography of the self

Hello fellow seekers, Welcome to Cartography of the Self...a place to map your path inside and outside of yourself, a place to explore...

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