“We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.” WorldWayTryingBelieveHelpingStoriesOur LivesTroubleCrazyValuableSensibleUnspeakableDemonic Author:William Kittredge
“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.” WorldWayBelieveArtWarSelfStoriesSkillsScaredDefenseStorytellingFearfulOwnershipAgricultureInventingSelf DefenseMake BelieveStrangenessOthernessInventing Stories Book:Owning It All: Essays Source: Owning It All: Essays
“I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.” PeopleWorldBelieveChildrenStoriesDreamWantedDiesFatherChanceSecretWonderSawsDesignCreationFieldsSweetPromiseSightWestDecentFar AwayStarting OverPilgrimFertileOld WorldWreckageWanted To DieSurrounded By Friends Author:William Kittredge
