Story Paths
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A song for these times, and a course for you and your relations
April 23, 2024 19:35 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBLinks:Laura Burns' family constellation course.Isaac Fosl-Van Wyke's music.Welcome to Story Paths. Why stories? Because they help us imagine together, for one reason. They help us see possible pasts, possible futures. Welcome welcome, welcome. Today is a special issue. The audio version has music, so do have a listen. I’ll also share an amazing course that a friend and mentor of mine is putting on. Let's start with the music. I recently traveled southward to Kentucky to visit a dear frie...
Beyond the Horizon: A Pilgrimage into Deep-Time Stories
April 16, 2024 09:37 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MBRead this as an article, and share your thoughts here Book one-on-one story sessions here Let’s open with a poem A power outage, is not an aberration. It is the old normal world poking through into the aberration of tech depending on tech depending on tech depending on the world. Wind, water, weather, creature. This wild wild world. What is it to be cut off from ancestral stories? When gaps to appear between generations, between children and adolescents, adolescents and adults, ...
A Third Ethics Part 2: Evolving a Worldview to Encompass the World We Impact
April 09, 2024 13:28 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBRead this as an article and reply here Book one-on-one story sessions here Bringing Distant Ones Close A Spiritual Approach How might I connect with the water in Nigeria, Alberta, Costa Rica, Australia? How can I come to understand that this water may well come into my own body? We learn from many spiritual teachings that all beings are in interrelation with each other. We are, as Martin Luther King said (in 1963 from the Birmingham jail) in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in ...
New Course: Story Shapes Part II - Structuring Intricate Plots
April 05, 2024 00:22 - 3 minutes - 4.58 MBWatch the promo here The sales stuff: I'm offering this at an opening discount of 15 dollars. Buy it on Gum Road (free account). I'm also lowering the price on my three course bundle, which includes Story Shapes 1, and Brainstorming Story Ideas, for 30. Buy the bundle of all three courses. I'll hold that until the first week of April, then they'll go up. With these purchases, you’ll be able to either watch the videos online, or download them to your own computer. Buying these is a gr...
A Third Ethics Part 1: Evolving a Worldview to Encompass the World We Impact
April 02, 2024 09:15 - 15 minutes - 14 MBRead this as an article and share your thoughts here Book one-on-one story sessions here I’ll open with a passage penned by none other than the Dalai Lama, which appears in the preface of Coming Back to Life, the Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown. The Dalai Lama writes: Although it is increasingly evident how interdependent we are in virtually every aspect of our lives, this seems to make little difference to the way we think about ourselves in rel...
How Mindscapes change Landscapes: Borders in story and in life
March 26, 2024 10:06 - 9 minutes - 10.8 MBFor story workshops: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/06d77f86-cbe9-4c65-8486-2e723e2b33b4 It is a freestyle rhythmic meditation on borders. Because just as the stories in our minds become the stories we live, the borders in our minds become the borders we enforce. This one’s better listened to (see the audio link). In we go. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storypaths.substack.com/subscribe
7 Generations, a Deep-time Meditation
March 19, 2024 10:03 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBWorkshop: Speak the Work you Love: Storytelling for Businesses with Soul Sign up for weekly story workshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f3dbaab7-c9bf-463b-ad5d-bfc51651ccfe How might it feel to expand your psychic footprint back in time, to go back seven generations, with all the changes? How might it feel to go forward into the future? How would thinking in deep time change your vocational work? How would you consider succession, and who are you inheriting understandings fro...
The Monk & the Labyrinth: A New Graphic Novellla
March 14, 2024 11:26 - 4 minutes - 5.15 MBHere's a quick little episode to share a new story. That has been swirling into creation, a pattern in the center of a sandstorm, with flows of wind coming in from different directions. This story is in the form of a virtual comic. Read a preview here. Read the full comic here. And what is this story about? Hear me, for I whisper strange wonders. In a circular stone temple, a muskrat monk awaits the coming of pilgrims. Various creatures make this journey to bring him their death-poems: ...
Mapping Stories, From Start to Heart
March 12, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBSign up for weekly story playshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f15d43a9-4e89-47d1-93e0-a40c0d03d546 There's a spectrum, with boring on one side and weird on the other. Let’s consider story beginnings, and tinker with the ratio between familiar and strange. Here's a way to consider beginnings. Here's a meditation. You are standing within grasslands stretching in every direction. By your feet, the land is familiar: the plants, the smell of it. But your eye follows a particular...
The Grim Reaper Born Again: Death in Story and Life
March 05, 2024 12:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBWeekly story playshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/86acb049-61b0-4311-8dce-d0d833d6b76e If I had my life over again, I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid, limp. You might as well ...
Believe It or Not, Part 2: Navigating Wild Perspectives
February 27, 2024 12:00 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MBSign up for weekly story workshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/a599bdd3-d828-4b67-a036-f5f816bd56e1 In part one of our exploration of belief, we began by considering a system of beliefs as a system of scaffolding, crisscrossing above the waters of life. Across watery mystery. We finished by figuring that belief might be more like a liquid stain glass orb surrounding each person, that colors the way they see the world and the shapes they see through it, and even which parts the...
Believe It or Not: The Power of Fictional Faiths. Part 1
February 20, 2024 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBSign up for weekly story playshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/42ce63d7-a0b4-4231-88ac-0fe8861e55e3 I had a dream last night, in which my sister and I were guests in the house of a Shanghai family: card-carrying supporters of the Communist Party. I felt a gulf between us, that we could not speak across, because our brief conversations always stayed within a particular scaffolding of thought. Our hosts moved only within these thought structures, these bridges crossing troubled wa...
Dying into a Living World: Animism and Deathcare, with Sarah Kerr, PHD
February 13, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBSign up for weekly story playshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/45d29452-ac79-4c0d-8d77-6991f90fbb8a Cosmology is a story of how all this came to be, which leads into what is real, or, in the words of our guest today, ‘what is allowed to be real.’ The world-view of a person and culture determines how they live in this world, and also the manner in which they die. Sarah Kerr sees the world as full of living beings, human and other than human, in physical bodies and in other stat...
A Narrative Kaleidoscope: How Perspective Changes History
February 06, 2024 12:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBFor weekly story playshops go on here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/9bdd1000-4d0d-4c15-ba88-a5ae692cea40 I'm writing this and reading this while I'm sitting by the ocean, and it feels a funny thing to talk about history here because it is, of course, such a human idea. Personal history is the story of my past, of my life. It could be the history of my ancestors, their journeys that led to me being here today. It could be the history of women obtaining the right to vote. So already we...
A Narrative Kaleidoscope
February 06, 2024 12:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBFor weekly story playshops go on here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/9bdd1000-4d0d-4c15-ba88-a5ae692cea40 I'm writing this and reading this while I'm sitting by the ocean, and it feels a funny thing to talk about history here because it is, of course, such a human idea. Personal history is the story of my past, of my life. It could be the history of my ancestors, their journeys that led to me being here today. It could be the history of women obtaining the right to vote. So already we...
Playful Blueprints: Designing Personal and Professional Sandboxes
January 30, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBLearn more about Tamara Strijack’s offerings here. SIgn up for weekly playshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/acc68ea7-3583-4165-b74a-096dff09b74b This is the latest conversation in our Play Matters series. I've spoken with a board game designer about the theory of game design, and by extension, play-space design. I've spoken with a man who goes into prisons, who brings creative exercises into those difficult, stifled places, helping people unlock their hearts. I've spoken wit...
Rivers of Ancestors
January 23, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB(Art by Jessie White, Seeds of Spells) Sign up for story workshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/b3e7ccb6-d735-4187-a4b6-221f1a6a0882 I've recently returned from an ancestry workshop, which was deeply moving. Combined with other ancestry work, and discussions about ancestry that have gone on in my life lately, this is opening up a channel for a deeper history of myself, a deeper sense of self. Perhaps you’re on your own journey into ancestry. I am of the many beings who have wa...
When Termites Take Over the Garden
January 22, 2024 12:21 - 2 minutes - 2.72 MBWhich real-life story does this remind you of? Comments here (paid subscribers): https://storypaths.substack.com/p/67d05587-82ae-4533-bb51-fd1c1041e9c6 Termites of the garden. The first dawn in the garden was simple but intense. Intensely hot. And next came the torrential rain. Massive plants sprouted up, followed by great beasts lurching about the land. Gradually, many kinds and sizes of creatures came to make their home there, and they endured through hot and cold spells, and then for a ...
Play is a Sign of Life, with Pulxaneeks
January 19, 2024 14:15 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBPulxaneeks website, including upcoming events. I’m glad and grateful to be presenting the following guest. Her vocation is as an Indigenous relations consultant, which is to say she helps settler folks like myself learn to be in good relations with the original peoples of this land. This involves far more than introducing people and smoothing communications. For folks like myself to be in good relations with indigenous people, there’s groundwork to be laid: a reckoning with history, both r...
Caterpillar Chronicle: Lessons from Butterfly Migrations
January 16, 2024 12:39 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBSign up for story workshops like this on Substack for just $5/month. Workshops are one hour weekly on Thursdays at 10-11 PST. https://storypaths.substack.com/p/7233d334-6564-4d50-bf60-2a022a34140c This episode captures the essence of our first story workshop, a weekly gathering exclusively available to our premium subscribers for just $5 per month. Joined by my friend Loke Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele-Keanaaina, we explore the lessons from migrating monarch butterflies. Together, we...
Monster at the Headwaters
January 15, 2024 11:00 - 2 minutes - 2.6 MBWrite your guess on Substack here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/36b06c3f-ca37-4095-aa09-810f2e61f58d Can you guess which real-life story this is? A river once flowed freely, a source of abundant fish for the people, until a monstrous presence established its lair at the headwaters. This creature voraciously consumed the fish and discharged bolts of lightning that struck distant places. The people, deeply connected to the river and its inhabitants, waged a prolonged battle against thi...
Storyteller's Diary: An Old Friend. Part 3, Integration
January 10, 2024 12:00 - 7 minutes - 8.06 MBHere's the associated article, with pictures. You can add your comments here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/9e7267ab-518f-4599-beff-0530e80208f6 Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. This is a Storyteller’s diary edition. As I tell the tale of this one life, may it help you to tell your tales. If you missed the first parts, I spoke about why I abandoned my town and family twenty years ago, falling into a descent after my father's death. My journey paused as I took a spir...
In the Meantime
January 09, 2024 23:11 - 10 minutes - 9.91 MBBecome a paid subscriber for $5 and get access to 4 workshops per month! https://storypaths.substack.com/ Welcome. This writing comes to you from the shore of the ocean in the Salish Sea. There's a woodpecker who's going at it on a Gary Oak just nearby, seeking some bugs. There are seagulls landing and strutting about on a rock outcropping, and I see a human walking back from that rock outcropping jutting into the ocean. I reckon that human’s in a contemplative mood. I am. The sun will s...
Everyday Epics: The Boring Plywood Door
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute - 2.21 MBWhich real-life story does this remind you of? Comments here (paid subscribers): https://storypaths.substack.com/p/18522076-40a8-4569-80b0-71ec20b9699c There is a boring plywood door, in a boring plywood room. Many people make their lives in this room, but if they were to open that door, then on the other side, they would find dozens more doors. Only these are not of plywood. They are of oak, rowan, birch, and other luscious woods. These doors are decorated with heather, and garlands of li...
Play in Ceremony with Jennifer Engracio
January 03, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBReply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/59ab0f86-2c8f-4168-bf08-7ec3eb672e75(Available for paid Substack subscribers) You can learn more about Jennifer’s work here. Is ceremony a grave affair for adults, or can it be something playful which includes children? Or perhaps all of the above? Playful with adults, serious with children, and a mix of all these and more. Have you ever wished that education could be a ship that can be sailed in any direc...
Story Elements - Journeys: The Return
January 02, 2024 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBShare your stories on the newsletter here: https://storypaths.substack.com/ Welcome to the Story Path newsletter and podcast, a Story Elements Edition. Journeys: Part six: The Return. In the previous parts of this exploration of journeys, in story and in life, we looked at different possible destinations, the amazing journeys of different creatures, and considered how these journeys might help us reflect upon as humans. Then we moved beyond our planet. It's been a wonderful journey explo...
One day in the Playground
January 01, 2024 11:00 - 2 minutes - 2.63 MBWrite your guess on Substack here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/90569a1b-7787-4636-a3b4-27a969f6b513 Can you guess which real-life story this is? In the playground, two boys began to fight. It got intense, so the second boy ran off to perch at the top of a slide. It was there that a third boy found him and asked, "Do you know that you don't have to be close to fight?" "What?" asked the second boy. "Take this," said the third, and passed that second boy a straw, and a palm full of pe...
Storyteller's Diary: An Old Friend, Part 2, Reckoning with the Past
December 27, 2023 13:32 - 8 minutes - 9.23 MBHere's the article for this episode, with pictures and prompts: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/555eb054-2321-4811-b15c-a6746d84cdd2 Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. This is a Storyteller’s diary edition. As I tell the tale of this one life, may it help you to tell your tales. In part one, I spoke about how I met an old friend of my father's after twenty years, and how we began to throw ropes across the river of time that separated us. We gradually made our way toward...
Storyteller's Diary: A new kind of pilgrimage
December 27, 2023 12:06 - 8 minutes - 9.92 MBWelcome to the Story Paths Newsletter, a Storyteller’s Diary edition. Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/b44f0ad4-f7b9-4d14-b975-1b34ebc4dee2 (Available for paid Substack subscribers)You'll also find images connected to this episode.--- I'm on pilgrimage again, but it's different this time. Before, it was overseas, inside the myths of those palms, hills paths, trees, and temples. Singing poems in the tongues of those mothers and wizened sage...
Story Elements - Journeys in Outer Space II: Galactic Cores
December 26, 2023 12:58 - 10 minutes - 9.26 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Share your stories on the newsletter here: https://storypaths.substack.com/ Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter and Podcast. A Story Elements Edition. Journeys: Part five. Oute…
Everyday Epics: A Tale of Two Bullies
December 25, 2023 13:59 - 1 minute - 2.25 MBWhich real-life story does this remind you of? Comments here (paid subscribers): https://storypaths.substack.com/p/e817b97e-6206-4107-aa85-e6cbcfce7631 In the playground, a boy pushed down another child, and kept them pressed down while he rifled through their pockets, taking one thing after another. Then he let them go and said, ‘Every day you have to come bring me more.’ The child was frightened, more so when they saw another child being pushed down by another bully. But when there was a...
Play in Prison, with Luis J. Rodriguez
December 20, 2023 10:43 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBReply to the story prompts in this episode here:https://storypaths.substack.com/p/fdce5cda-f28e-49fa-ad02-d8bbf05a27cc(Available for paid Substack subscribers) Find out more about Mr. Rodriguez’ work here: https://www.luisjrodriguez.com/ Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. I'm Theodore Lowry. Today, I'm glad to be presenting you with a conversation with Luis Rodriguez. This was an in-person conversation that I recorded at the Peacemaker Gathering, which the Cowichan People...
Story Elements - Journeys in Outer Space: Comets and Planets
December 19, 2023 12:57 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Share your stories on the newsletter here: https://storypaths.substack.com/ Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter and Podcast. A Story Elements Edition. Journeys: Part Four Outer …
Everyday Epics - Stone Slates
December 18, 2023 11:16 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBWrite your guess on Substack here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/fb3a8ee4-f3d8-4df3-92ae-2070f2136363 Can you guess which real-life story this is? A confidence man, a modern-day coyote trickster, arrives in town. He brings a cart filled with stone slabs, each one soaked in luminescent oil. Distributing these slabs, he leads the unsuspecting townsfolk into a deep trance. Then, the confidence man deftly picks their pockets. Pleased with himself, he revels in his newfound wealth. Howeve...
Storyteller's Diary: An Old Friend, Part 1
December 13, 2023 13:24 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBHere's the link to the article with pictures and prompts: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/9d6551a9-bd4d-48dc-b50c-1b33337d19c9 An Old Friend Part I: Crossing a River Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. This is a Storyteller’s diary edition. I met an old friend of my father last night. As a teenager, he was also my friend, and a mentor. We met and spoke in the lounge of a hotel where he was staying, helping with a charity event for a couple of days. His name is Wayne, and...
Story Elements: Journey III: Larger Animals
December 12, 2023 13:10 - 11 minutes - 13.5 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/2486375c-6dd6-4b22-9398-b4b75c8d3f9f(Available for paid Substack subscribers) Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast, a story elements edition, where we explore the ingredients of stories so that you may better see them and tell them. We’re exploring journeys now. In the last issue we looked at four journeys mad...
Everyday Epics: Hoops of Nations
December 11, 2023 11:59 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBWhich real-life story does this remind you of? Comments here (paid subscribers): https://storypaths.substack.com/p/57633e41-bf9e-42b6-bc1f-48410d5d1a6f There was a boy, out walking with his tribe, who came to the encampment of a different group. His tribe jeered and threw bits of wood over, but the boy was curious about those other people. He wished to be in a circle with them, exchanging ceremonies and stories, but they kept their distance, and he wasn’t sure enough of himself to go in th...
Play Matters Series: Game Design with Matteo Menapace
December 06, 2023 12:05 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBReply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/de0c4826-9ab0-43f2-9f63-291a9f883ea3. (Available for paid Substack subscribers)There, you'll also find pictures of Matteo test-playing his games. To watch the video of this conversation, go here: https://youtu.be/Rr0PG7HBusYFind out more about Matteo's work here: https://ma.tteo.me For his climate change game, Daybreak, go here: https://daybreakgame.org I’m pleased to present the first conversation in a seri...
Story Elements: Journey II: Animals
December 05, 2023 13:15 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f7093e4f-4c77-4846-a1b5-7614fbe08e37(Available for paid Substack subscribers) What inspires the journeys that we humans write into Stories? Surely the journeys of other humans inspire us. But what of other journeys? What of the journeys that we find ourselves surrounded by, if we are open to looking? In part one of our expl...
Hungry Monster
December 04, 2023 11:17 - 2 minutes - 2.97 MBWrite your guess on Substack here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f691ae68-1e8b-4e85-aae6-724cab2c946b Can you guess which real-life story this is? In a land adorned with mountains, deserts, rivers, and lush valleys, a people peacefully roamed. Until a monster, fierce and insatiable, descended upon this land. This creature devoured entire rivers, carved into mountains, and threatened the land’s very heart. A courageous man, deeply connected to the beauty of these lands, embarked on a ...
Storyteller's Diary, Part I: Into the Cold
November 29, 2023 11:33 - 10 minutes - 9.91 MBReply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/a363f193-f941-4ae9-aefa-01e09f72c32d.(Available for paid Substack subscribers) Story prompts: Are you on a journey now? How is it both different and akin to another journey you’ve made in the past? One might be a personal journey, another professional. One in youth, another later in life. One internal, another external. I’ll be interested to hear about your journeys. in the comments. This is a public epis...
Story Elements: Journeys Part 1
November 28, 2023 12:20 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBTo reply to the story prompts, go to the Story Paths Substack here. Welcome to the first ‘Story Elements’, where we explore the ingredients of stories so that you may better see them and tell them. This is not a plot-setting character three-act structure, hero's journey kind of exploration, although some of that will be in here. We’re going for an exploration of story that is more organic and poetic. Story can be seen as a response to life. We'll explore in this series how elements of sto...
25 Free Memberships for Story Paths Newsletter Launch
November 23, 2023 18:25 - 1 minute - 1.17 MBWatch the video here. Comment on the substack post here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/2ef7e4c2-4f0e-42c9-a6b2-b9840c11a364 In less than a week, we’re launching a newsletter about stories. It’s about seeing beneath the skin of life to find the stories within. It’s very interactive: full of story prompts, and there's a free and a paid version. As part of the launch, we're giving away 25 annual memberships. It's hosted on Substack, so if you're interested, go there and comment on any p...
Samplings of Stories
November 20, 2023 09:32 - 10 minutes - 9.85 MB(To hear this newsletter with nifty music and sound effects, have a listen to the audio. You can listen here, or look up Story Paths in any podcasting place) Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter and Podcast. We Are One Week Out… Wait, gotta turn off those capital letter before each word. Not Everything is a Title! Ahem. Next week I’ll be launching the first gale in a storm of story-learning goodnesses, the first course in a feast of nourishing and tasty offerings for thee and thine. T...
Story Paths Season 4 Premiere
November 13, 2023 17:31 - 4 minutes - 5.6 MB(there’s a rich audio version of this post above, if you’d care to listen) Welcome to season four of the Story Paths podcast, and newsletter. I'm writing this (originally on paper) from within a wooden cabin off-grid in a valley known as Saranagati Valley, a place with whom I share deep experiences at key points of my life. I’m looking out over arid hills and the misty valley in the early morning, watching the sun creep down the hill on the far side as shadows recede and the day begins. ...
Peaceful as Embers
July 06, 2023 02:12 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBI recently attended a Peacemakers’ Gathering, hosted by the Cowichan People, here in the Salish Sea Ecosystem. In this gathering, people came from all over to make bridges and heal ancestral hurts. In this episode I share a song inspire by the opening ceremony of this gathering, and my friend Eric Fair-Layman shares a beautiful and poignant poem about grief and grieving, inspired by the work of Martin Prechtel. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers ...
Re-Storying with Tad Hargrave
June 21, 2023 12:07 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBHave you ever walked into a supermarket and wondered about the stories behind the food there on the shelf? Those corn chips… on which land did they grow, who tended them, and what is the inter-generational relationship between the corn seeds and the people who tended them over generations? How might we begin to bring story back into our food, our clothes, our fuel, and all the anonymous beings we depend on? Today my guest is Tad Hargrave. He's known for his business marketing for hippie...
Father's Day Special
June 07, 2023 09:14 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBWhat is a man? Who can father? When does it go right, and how can it go wrong? Poems by John O’donohue and Grace Paley Reflections by Amora Sun and Chay Beriault, and my weird self. Mentioned in the episode: The Outside Circle graphic novel, written by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and illustrated by Kelly Mellings. The Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storypaths.substack.com/s...
When Womxn were Rivers
May 24, 2023 10:35 - 1 hour - 60 MBHello dear listener, Beneath the stories of everyday life - news, politics and the like - lie deeper stories. And deeper still. Back into deep time, and into the timeless. Into bedrock stories. As bedrock determines the alkalinity of the soil layered above it, these deep stories affect the many stories layered above. Through her relationship with a humble river in the north of England, Laura Burns found insight into these deeper layers. Give yourself time and space to listen to this one - ...
Mother's Day Special
May 10, 2023 12:42 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBWelcome to a special Mother's Day episode, where six guest poets and storytellers break down suffocating ideas of what a mother must be, to make space for the primal torrent of the earthy, crazy, profoundly deepening realites. And this isn't just about biological mothers, though god bless 'em, we need 'em. Our guests share traditional stories, heartfelt poems, and personal experiences that delve into the twists and burns of motherhood. Through their stories, we'll discover that motherhood ...