About Stories Worth Telling

Stories Worth Telling

Life is story. We process our experience of life as a story in which we are the central figure. This is the normal way we make sense of things, and of the great story in which we find ourselves enmeshed. As we navigate our days and years, we fit them into the story we tell about ourselves. We find that the story we tell about ourselves only really makes sense when we fit it into a much greater and longer story.

Families, communities, peoples and cultures relate who and what they are and why they are who and what they are through stories. The first history and science were spoken as stories. Everyone and every people that has ever existed identifies themselves by the stories they tell about themselves, and about others in contrast and comparison.

The famous comedy skit found linked below is not only funny, but a bit of a parable, a story with a lesson, about life and the way we experience so much of what comes in front of us. The lesson it gives is just as effective 70+ years after the original outrageous spoof by those old-time comedy greats, Abbott and Costello.

As we try to communicate, so much depends on listening carefully and being really attentive to the other party and the verbal and non-verbal clues they are sending us.  We often become so focused on our own stuff and ideas and point of view that we don’t really hear the words, let alone catch the drift, of what’s being said and what’s really going on around us.

Through story-telling, this site hopes to help clear out some of our intellectual and spiritual fog so we can hear and see others more clearly, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, creed, or ideology. To any reader, I urge you to hear/read the story as a story rather than reducing it to suspected underlying ideology or agenda.