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“Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision...”
“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate...”
“One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportio...”
“Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth and hope and usefulness, from the smashing up of...”
“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.”
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me? ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not”
“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. ...”
“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.”
“I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.”
“Each day has the potential of being your best day. You decide what each day will bring.”
“Judge me if you must, but keep in mind how very little pleasure I could have possibly derived from a one-thrust sex session, a quickie in a closet, and a come-free drunken hookup. If anything, you ...”
“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”
“With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and de...”
“Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.”
“I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.”
“And it certainly wasnt a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward.”
“I learnt a lot from the simple lives our friends lived. I saw them living with so much less than we, as westerners, were used to. I couldn't even begin to imagine how to prepare a meal for four peo...”
“Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.”
“Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.”
“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.”
