Category Archive: reciprocity

Family Reading and Storytelling Legacy Continued

Happy Happy!  My granddaughters are happy! Their grandmother is happy!  Their great-grandmother is happy! I’m happy! Following up on my previous Reading Legacy post- Cartoonist/Ilustrator and great friend Peter Menice (Petermenice.com) ‘translated’ the… Read More

Living Treasure and the Fat Wood Fairy

Just in time for the really first cold snap of the season, the Fat Wood Fairy left a burlap sack on our porch. One of the reasons I’m known as “One Match” is… Read More

The Onion Seller, The Basket Maker and an Ambassador of Kindness

A few days ago, after a visit to Ernest Thompson Seton’s Santa Fe homestead, now in the wonderful hands and hearts of The Academy for the Love of Learning(http://www.aloveoflearning.org/ I found myself browsing… Read More

Three Stories- Nine Questions

There are times that I turn to certain stories almost as talismans that contain much needed guidance, and that help me keep my bearing.  This is one of those times and so I… Read More

The Endagered Stories Act in Action

I’m in San Fransisco to take part in the Poetics of Aging Conference (poeticsofaging.org) I thought this would be a good time to say a little about the Endangered Stories Act and to… Read More

The Crane Wife – Asking Too Much From Stories

There are times when one suddenly sees or understands an old familiar tale in a new light.  Yesterday was one of those  days. My old friend, Storyteller Orunumamu says that a feather is… Read More

Time and The Rivers Flowing

I’m writing from Alaska where we just finished performing at the Kenai River Watershed Festival this past weekend. I had an encounter at the end of the first day that moved me deeply.… Read More

The Storyteller Knows Me

Two recurrent themes have jumped out at me as I participate in the Reinvention summit.   Storytelling is a tool for relationship, and that everyone has a story to tell.  I thought I’d pass… Read More

The Most Precious Thing

Here’s a story that has a lot of resonance for me lately.  My partner Liz Mangual and I have adapted it from a version by Jim May we found in More Ready to… Read More

The Gift Must Always Move-Yukon Hospitality

A wonderful and unexpected package arrived at my door today.  It’s a box containing dozens of pieces of fatwood  sent by my wonderful friend Sid Byrd from Flaundreau South Dakota.  Sid is a… Read More

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