Just a story?

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

Family

RCC_1112, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A family is its stories.

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

Stories

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

Stories

RC1_0151, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

And true to what?

Stories always pose that question: what kind of truth is being told?

Stories never resolve that question:

their work is to remind us that we have to live with complicated truths.

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