We were caught in No Man’s Land. Men, pregnant women, and children were all on their hands and knees, crawling across the Jordan and Syrian wilderness as rebel bullets whizzed over our heads. We just had to reach the Jordanian military vehicles. If only we could get there, we would be safe. There is something […]
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Detachment
I wrote this a few months ago but never got around to publishing it. I’ve been thinking about the concept of detachment lately and hope to explore it a bit more in the near future, so I thought it might be a decent (admittedly unsatisfactory) primer for further discussion. I watched the movie, Detachment (2011), […]
Story Part II — The Importance of Telling your Story (My Depression)
Part one of the story series examined the following aspects of story: it’s importance and the listener’s transformative role in the transaction between the storyteller and the listener. In part two, I want to discuss the importance of telling your story. Between the two main functions of stories – storyteller and listener – we tend […]
Story Part 1: Mimesis and Story — the Art of Listening to that which Represents Us
The first time I was drawn to meaningful stories was in college. Simultaneously, in two separate classes, I was reading James Joyce’s The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Nathanial Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. The former, I “read” in high school, while the latter was not on our reading list, so both stories […]
The Essence of Story — Introduction
Two summers ago, I went on a road trip with a friend through the south. We cut across I-40 and enjoyed Memphis BBQ, camped in the mountains outside of Chattanooga, stayed with some old friends in Atlanta, and circled back through Birmingham on I-20 and ended back at home. In the middle of our trip, […]
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