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Monthly Archives: April 2017
THE ASYMMETRICAL POWER OF STORIES-
NSL were guests at the ATFP and APN forum with the Washington Center last night and lots of good questions came up. The one that we hear a lot is about NSL and normalization…that programs like ours pretend an equality … Continue reading
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“What does he need to do tonight?”
The new question the broadcasters put to the pundits before a election debate. “She has to be more likable.” “He has to be more Presidential.” oh….thanks…how profound. Since when did two bit pundits know what a candidate needed to do???? … Continue reading
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IF YOU WON BY DIVIDING, TELL ME HOW DO YOU GOVERN??? BY UNITING?!!!
Since the Bush-Rove days, the election strategy de jour is win by dividing. Appeal to the basest of bases so you get your ardent voters out to beat the crap out of the other side, and put gay marriage and … Continue reading
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My Eulogy for Dad
As a war time navigator, Dad certainly ended up in places that were not on the map of his growing up. Back then, he and brother Steve would play on Aunty Moriah’s property at Warrill Creek and he’d dream of … Continue reading
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If you want to change the world, you have to change the story! September 27, 2015
What story?” You ask. The story that says, “You are wasting your time trying to change anything.” The story that says, ”Who are you to presume you can do anything that makes a difference to anyone? Are you the Messiah?” … Continue reading
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It Matters Less the Story You Tell, It Matters More the Story You Trigger, the one that shapes the Listening
“I never said half the things I said.” Yogi Berra “Its not what you said that matters and its not even what you think you said (which is sometimes totally different) Its not even what your audience heard its what … Continue reading
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Re-interpreting Karl Marx’s Interpretation- Memo to Presidential Candidates
It is one of those quotable quotes- “that philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it.” It looks good on a T-shirt and a bumper sticker, and its too clever by half. The … Continue reading
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From Walls to Windows- The Power of Stories
When combatants decide to share a personal story, one that comes out of the authority of their own experience, not parotting some tribal or religious orthodoxy, they begin to dismantle the wall of separation. They turn a wall into a … Continue reading
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What if…. the future already happened, but we missed it?
What if…. the old story- that Israelis and Palestinians can never get along, that they will always hate and mistrust each other, that violence is in their DNA, gets contradicted every summer in a small and secret Washington DC human … Continue reading
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THANKS CREATES A SLOW DAY FEELING
Happy thanksgiving to All- someone mentioned recently that Gratitude has an effect on how we experience time- that it slows it down. partly because it means we look back and double down on moments and people whose contribution, by our … Continue reading
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