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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:57:56 -0500
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Along with being a psychotherapist, I also do editing and writing=20 support for doctoral dissertations and masters' thesis papers. This quote was in a dissertation I'm working on and I thought I'd share=20= it with the list. The dissertation doesn't have anything to do=20 w/storytelling, but I liked the quote. Don't have the page #, that's an=20= error in the citation... but it will come. Namaste, Kathe All stories are full of bias and uniqueness; they mix fact with=20 meaning. This is the root of their power. Stories allow us to see=20 something familiar through new eyes. We become in that moment a guest=20 in someone else=92s life, and together with them sit at the feet of = their=20 teacher. The meaning we may draw from someone else=92s story may be=20 different from the meaning they themselves have drawn. No matter. Facts=20= bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.=A0=A0 =A0 Remen, R. (1996). Kitchen table wisdom: Stores that heal. New York:=20 Riverhead.= ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||