There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting – – Gautama Buddha
To happiness… To enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. – – Lucius Seneca
Whoever lives true life, love true life – – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What does it mean to live a true storytelling life?
It means unfolding and flushing out what is true at each moment of the waking day.
This is more difficult than it seems. Because each story is only a small fragment of many other stories of other people in many context in which the story diffracts.
It seems we are always in the middle of many unfinished stories stories that many do not even have beginnings and we are living in the middle and deciding which way to go in which story at any moment of the day and night.
Perhaps the road to true storytelling is tuning into the moment and noticing what you notice.
Other times it’s being a detective and eliminating scenarios that are not true sorting out evidence looking for clues following up when I called flushing out a story.
In Antenarrative inquiry, i’m piecing together fragments each moment and asking what are the context to each of these dragons are the fragments moving are they falling into place or are they falling out of place?
I try to fill in the unspoken words the unspoken signs the unwritten context and follow the clues to flush out a story.
I’m sure you can see this is a project in each moment living a true storytelling life is always unfinished always more to be done.
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