Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Just a story?

RIC_3108 by rchoephoto
RIC_3108, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


If you’re ready, you’ll get it.
If not, then it will be just a story.

Robert Matthew, quoted by Jo-ann Archibald
in Arthur W. Frank, letting stories breathe: a socio-narratology

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Life

DSC_6591 by rchoephoto
DSC_6591, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is a journey of approaching a horizon that we never arrive at. 

Mark Nepo,
Facing the Lion Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives,

Monday, August 29, 2011

Symbols

RIC_6826-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6826-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All our words about God are symbols.
Language itself is composed of symbols …
God is an experience. 

Paul Knitter


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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Friday, August 26, 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Vision

RIC_8201-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8201-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



     Your vision will become clear only when you
     can look into your own heart.
     Who looks outside, dreams;
     who looks inside, awakens.

       Carl Jung

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Where There Is Love

RIC_6404-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6404-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Where there is love
You’ll always find somebody,
And where there is you
Somebody will find love.

Patricia Louise Ruchen, Where There Is Love

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Be kind

RIC_6307-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



Be kind to each other.
That is one of the key ingredients in being a good friend.
Thank God for good friends. 

David G. Hallman, August Farewell: The Last Sixteen Days of a Thirty-Three-Year Romance

Monday, August 22, 2011

In Memory of Jack Layton [July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011]

RC1_9250 by rchoephoto
RC1_9250, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

“We deeply regret to inform you that the Honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 am today, Monday August 22. He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family and loved ones.”

Olivia Chow, wife and a fellow NDP MP


May you continue to inspire us:
To enter each day with a generous heart.
To serve the call of courage and love
Until we see your beautiful face again
In that land where there is no more separation,
Where all tears will be wiped from our mind,
And where we will never lose you again.

John O'Donohue, On the Death of the Beloved



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Connected

RIC_6426-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6426-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.
Our lives are connected by a thousand individual threads,
and along these sympathetic fibres,
our actions run as causes and return to us as results. 

Herman Melville


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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Storytellers

RIC_8253-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8253-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Storytellers use fiction to tell the truth,
and the more stories you know,
the more ways you have to tell the truth,
and the more stories you know,
the more courage you have to make a difference in the world. 

Dan Yashinsky, The Tale of Rob Ford, Insight, Toronto Star, Saturday, August 20, 2011


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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Stories

RCC_0371 by rchoephoto
RCC_0371, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Stories, like tools,
may be best understood by what they are able to do. 

Arthur W. Frank, letting stories breathe: a socio-narratology

Friday, August 19, 2011

Forgiveness

RIC_7464-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7464-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Forgiveness is the decision to free ourselves
     from the personal offense and blame
     that have us stuck in a cycle of suffering.

       Fred Luskin, Forgiveness for Good

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Pilgrims

RIC_3201 by rchoephoto
RIC_3201, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

    

     We are, all of us, pilgrims who struggle along different
     paths towards the same destination.

       Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Metaphors

RIC_3128 by rchoephoto
RIC_3128, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Metaphors matter – they are powerful images, creating options and limits. 

Mark Lau Branson, Memories, Hopes, and Conversations

Monday, August 15, 2011

Creating meaning together

DSC_7406 by rchoephoto
DSC_7406, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Social Constructionism:
We construct our world, our reality, through our language.

Mark Lau Branson, Memories, Hopes, and Conversations


As people create meaning together, so do they sow the seeds of action. Meaning and action are intertwined. As we generate meaning together we create the future.

Taos Institute website [http://www.taosinstitute.net/]


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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

Story of Our Life

RIC_6727-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6727-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

None of us can read the story of our life – we can only live it. The result is that we live in and with uncertainty.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversations: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible – Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Our Story

RIC_6719-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_6719-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our story is the vehicle through which we communicate to others and ourselves a piece of our life. Our story is how we put our events into perspective and assign meaning to what happened. 

Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Food

RIC_6677-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6677-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

    
     Food is not a weapon. To use it as such to foster a
     mentality willing to use it as such is to prepare, in the
     human character and community, the destruction of the
     sources of food. … Neither nature nor people alone can
     produce human sustenance, but only the two together,
     culturally wedded. 

      Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

Monday, August 8, 2011

Connective Power

RC1_4425 by rchoephoto
RC1_4425, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The connective power embodies and serves the whole, while the consuming power grips and serves the part. 

Mark Nepo, Facing the Lion, Being the Lion

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Friday, August 5, 2011

Religion

RCC_2809 by rchoephoto
RCC_2809, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



Religion makes experience meaningful and sacred – or it expresses the fact that these things are true of experience, properly understood.
It does indeed add another dimension to experience

Marilynne Robinson

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Seeing & Naming

RIC_6647-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6647-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I had seen only that which I was able to name. …
The mere words I knew, the richer, fuller, and more variegated would be the world that opened before me, and which I could capture. 

Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus


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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Writer

DSC_5850 by rchoephoto
DSC_5850, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The writer, unless he is a mere word
     processor, retains three attributes
     that power-mad regimes cannot
     tolerate; a human imagination, in
     many forms it may take; the power to
     communicate; and hope.
       
       Margaret Atwood

Monday, August 1, 2011

Question

RIC_5028-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_5028-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If a man speaks in the forest,
and there is no woman there
to hear him, is he still wrong?

Seen on a T-shirt


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