To Dream

RIC_6806-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To dream is to imagine a world and a life better

than the one we know now.

Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments: Learning from Moses

How to Cope with Frustration 

What Matters

RIC_4301, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What matters is what we bear away within us:

the story, the song of our living.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Story

RIC_5378-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we can't get the whole picture unless we have the whole story. And the magic in words is that the story can make the picture.

Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story

Listening

RIC_5940-3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If there is anything worth calling theology, it is
     listening to people’s stories, listening to them and
     cherishing them.

        Mary Pellauer

Storytelling

RIC_4237, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If we want to live at peace ourselves, we need to
     tell our stories.

       Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

Where we came from

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Unless we understand and cultivate what each of us had inherited from wherever we came from, we could not really give the world back everything it needed to find in us.

Joan Chittister