Monthly Archives: June 2020

TEST OUT OF 100 FOR ONE TERM PRESIDENTS

3 Presidents Carter-Bush Snr-Ford- have in common that they were One Term Presidents- the factors in their loss include…You can score them as you go through.   -a domestic crisis that calls their leadership into question 10 -an economic downturn-job … Continue reading

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If we make you, we can break you

Hyenas are interesting creatures- They feed off carion. The lions might do the job on the prey and eat their fill and then, the Hyenas move in as scavengers- they can smell the carcass. The media act in the same … Continue reading

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Three Things I know about Stories- and One More

There are three things I know about Stories. 1.Stories matter! They create power, incite wars, cause trauma, offer healing, feed despair, nourish hope. I am an evangelist for the ministry of stories, mapping their power in order to create a … Continue reading

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The danger of substituting Memory for History

Statues are coming down! Richmond is roiling. Robert E. Lee, once the one untouchable ikon of the vanquished South is closer to being removed from the Avenues. Since Charlottesville, the whole monumentalizing of the Civil War has come under scrutiny. … Continue reading

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CURIOSITY MEETS CERTAINTY? ANSWER……….NOTHING

MIND The Buddhists call it Beginners Mind-that one enters into every encounter with the assumption that there is something on offer here, something new to learn. David Brooks likes to call it ‘epistemic humility,’ meaning of all the things that … Continue reading

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Did we lose the Plot?

The old idea of stories that we learn as kids is like a golden age of reverie. We grew up to indulge the imagination with stories, fairy tales, a fantasy world where dogs and cats could talk and elephants could … Continue reading

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Narrative Ethics

Our  Storywise work has always included what most leave out. What we term  NARRATIVE ETHICS.  It indicates that we take responsibility for the fact that in teaching stories,  we are teaching people how to use a weapon. It can be … Continue reading

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The Conspiracy of Stories to take over the World

WHAT’s THE STORY? Five GOP local members in Texas are tweeting that George Floyd’s death was a set up funded by George Soros and staged to attack Trump. The murder never happened. What a story? Believe it and what does … Continue reading

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