Storytelling is an Art

Notes ON the ART of storytelling:

 “When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”

Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

 Storytelling is also a natural function of our brains. We like to complete things. We like to complete the story and come to a conclusion.

We all have a story to tell. We are living it out each day. We get to change to plot and evolve the main character with our every thought and action. Every communication is a mini story. What perspective are you choosing? Are you telling your highest story? 

We choose where we focus the energy of our life narrative.

Resource:

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Stories We Tell a film by Sarah Polley

Design + Spirituality

Architecture is not about form, it is about many other things. The light and the use, and the structure, and the shadow, the smell and so on. I think form is the easiest to control, it can be done at the end.

Peter Zumthor at the Royal Gold Medal Lecture 2013

Perhaps I was drawn to a career in design because subconsciously I knew it was the process that most closely matches our journey here on earth. Where we turn ideas into things.

Stuart Wilde suggests we ask ourselves the following questions:

Are my circumstances designed to nurture me, do they support me, or am I at the mercy of circumstances?

If so, what am I going to do about it?   What is the level of struggle here?

For Example, does the home I live in take so much effort to maintain that I get out of it less than you put in?