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The Things We Hold On To

In this picture is my Maya, one of three and by far the favourite. She is a nervous cat with a dainty personality and physically the smallest of the three, but also the one with the most delicate heart. She is a master at losing her collar and bell, and when she does, she moves around without a sound.  My cats are all in the habit of sleeping at home, so when it becomes dark, expect them to come inside and take their preferred places for the night. Sunday night, she wasn’t…

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One Story, a Thousand Meanings

No two people ever read the same story. The words may be identical, the chapters may unfold in exactly the same order, and the ending never changes. Yet every reader walks away carrying something entirely different. Why? Because we never read a story with our eyes alone—we read it with our lives. Stories enter our lives through the filters of what is important to us in this very moment.  A widow may find comfort in a chapter that another reader barely notices. Someone struggling with forgiveness may underline a single sentence that…

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The Timeless Journey of the Storyteller

The remarkable truth is that science has finally begun to affirm what ancient first storytellers seemed to know instinctively: Stories do more than entertain. They help us survive. When we tell the story of our lives, we are doing far more than recalling memories. We are searching for meaning, gathering scattered moments—joy and sorrow, triumph and failure—and weaving them into something that resembles understanding. Without a story, experiences remain isolated fragments.  Perhaps that is why every civilisation has treasured its storytellers. They were not merely keepers of history but healers of identity.…

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