My beautiful cousin in law, Jenn sent this to me this weekend. It was so touching and so beautifully told, I thought that you guys might like to check out the story and the site Storypeople.
After reading the story, there are places for people to comment so be sure to read those as well. You can spend quite a bit of time browsing the site and getting lost in other people’s stories. If you like what you see, they also offer a story of the day that can be emailed to you daily. In describing their site they say,
Who We Are
We’re a diverse group of people, artists, activists, healers, tinkerers. We talk, we laugh, we eat great food & drink great wine, sometimes we disagree (passionately) & sometimes we agree (equally passionately) & it’s all part of the same gift of being alive together. Our wish is that other people experience this amazing world we live in as a world of imagination & possibility & healing. We believe our stories do that. (& that’s not just StoryPeople stories, but all our stories…) We believe (fiercely) in the power of stories, not because they’re our stories, but because it is valuable & right to protect the precious connections between people.
That’s who we are. We forget at times (isn’t it amazing how life sneaks up & steals your memory of who you want to be?), but mainly, we remember. It’s a future we’re creating together, every day, with each other & with each one of you. (Hopefully, you’re in a warmer place than we are…)
I love the line, “Our wish is that other people experience this amazing world we live in as a world of imagination & possibility & healing.” In my daily life, I try to remember this about our world. While I get bogged down at times and start to get all gucky and stuck in my dramas, I hope that more often than not, I look up and recognize the amazing. Reading the writings of people who have a similar motto is a way that I can help myself remember to do just that.
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