Telling Stories
To create a culture that reflects a reverence for life, we need stories and symbols that heal and guide, that help us remember we are part of a whole. - Jan Phillips Fulfilling our purpose in life requires that we first know our truth and then speak it: in words, in poems, in song, through stories and works of art, in warm, fragrant loaves of bread & sumptuous soups, in the quest for justice, through the rocking of babies, via the bringing of peace one breath at a time. We are the Vision Holders. We are the Storytellers. We are seekers who know that there is something greater than ourselves and we are a part of everything that is. We are those who know we hold this planet in trust for our children and our children's children and all the children in every time and place. We must tell our children stories of possibilities and teach them to dream their dreams into wakefulness, to bring their visions to a world ready to see. We need to teach our children that if the people o...