Where there is transformation, there is always a story.
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Muriel Rukeyser says that the universe is made up of stories, not atoms.Β Imagine this infinite universe alive with all the stories that have ever breathed, birthed, lived and died. In this universe are all the stories that ever shall be. Body stories. Soul stories. Blood stories. Root stories. Bone stories. Medicine stories. Poison stories. Spine stories. Gut stories. Birth stories. Death stories. Love stories. Erotic stories. Passion stories. Tragic stories. Coming of age stories. Aging stories. Foolish stories. Wisdom stories. Secret stories. Hidden stories. Forgotten stories. Ghost stories. Ancestral stories. Memory stories. Wounded stories. Scar stories. Healing stories. Cosmology stories. Star stories. Big bang stories. Transformational stories. And Firebird Stories, to name a few.
While our stories are as diverse as the world we live in, we have one story in common with one another βthe story of becoming human. We simmer in and are seasoned by the stories that make us human. Each one of us journeys through an odyssey of stories in this lifetime. Within us too, are the seed stories of our death and the adventure stories that lie beyond all that we have known in these bodies.Β
Sometimes we are predators to the story, and sometimes we are prey. We may alternate roles too.
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You may be the stalker of your stories, or the one being stalked. In the land of story we catch, gather, flesh out story bones, write eulogies for the stories that need to be settled and grow new wings on old stories that long to be freed. In this way, we do the work of story retrieval. The story undergoes an alchemical process, and you, who have journeyed with this story, are changed. You retrieve your story, you retrieve your soul. You die to the story and emerge more whole.
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