Monthly Archives: September 2017

Getting Ready for The Narrative Project 2018

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The New Geography of Change

THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF CHANGE  We keep using old maps. No wonder we feel lost. Think of time in the way Aristotle described a story- Beginning Middle End. He said that was what made a story seem whole- it is … Continue reading

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WHY MEMES ARE SO SELFISH-A COMIC TALE

Richard Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene. He coined the phrase MEMES to be be its cultural equivalent. It never hit me before how appropriate that name was, meme. It screams ME ME ME. Don’t know about you, but I never … Continue reading

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Stories by Default or Stories by Design

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TRAINING DC TOUR GUIDES MARCH 2014

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THE TERRITORIES OF MEANING- STORIES QUESTIONS TELL

Where are we when we ask WHY? What direction in time are we drawn to? Not the future normally. “Why” is not found up ahead, though it might well be that we did what we did because of what we … Continue reading

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Stories Matter, but which Matter more?

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Towards one day in November -The Walking Tour

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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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Healing the Corporate Story Anyone? Try a Dose of Ethics.

In the Washington Post Op Ed page this week, we were treated to  an exhibit A of Corporate storytelling at its most disturbing:Comcast and Time Warner merge, two disasters making one big disaster, according to Catherine Rampell- quoting the story … Continue reading

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