Tag: hopeless
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Power of Putting Pen to Paper
For centuries, people have instinctively turned to writing during times of joy, grief, confusion, and change. Long before psychology became a formal science, journals, letters, and personal reflections served as companions through life’s greatest challenges. Today, research confirms what many have experienced firsthand: writing can be profoundly therapeutic. Writing therapy, often referred to as expressive…
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The First Storytellers
The first storytellers did not stand behind podiums or sit behind laptops sipping cappuccinos specially prepared by the barista who knows them by name (ha-ha, that is not what a writer’s reality looks like, but we can dream). They didn’t care about their social media following or book signings, whether they should go the traditional…