“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.
The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” (1)
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
“Cling to those that your everyday life offers you. Write about your sorrows, your wishes, your passing thoughts, your belief in anything beautiful. Describe all that with fervent, quiet, and humble sincerity. In order to express yourself, use things in your surroundings, the scenes of your dreams, and the subjects of your memory;
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“Attempt to resurrect . . . sunken sensations of a distant past. You will gain assuredness. Your aloneness will expand and become your home, greeting you like the quiet dawn. Outer tumult will pass it by from afar" (2)
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This is my story… part autobiographical, part psychological, part scholarly evaluation
and contemplation, and mostly spiritual journey. A digital journal of inter-woven
human stories. A story of stories spanning nearly four centuries and stretching across
the broadexpanse, spinning themselves together into a single thread, a single thread
woven into the fabric of human existence.
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-dab