telling stories about the human experience – connections
we are more connected than we realize – “to feel”
creativity = new ideas, new thinking
REAL CHANGE begins within; must start here before it effects others
involvement
holding space for both success and failure
valuing yourself and your own voice
“we seek to protect what we love”
“Everyone gets to define their own narrative”
Tom Conroy – resident novelist
“…it matters not how small the beginning may seem…”
One thing done well lasts forever.
“your heart is the gate”
Unteach: we are not providing answer… answers are left to the audience
“unsayable can be said”
writing is a sensory experience – it is showing people a world they can step into
writing = “take some situation and make it worse and worse”
Let the first words be horrible.
The real craft of writing is those willing to edit.
“In the deepest part of our hearts lies a tunnel that leads to every other person.”
The feeling of needing directions or a map or just a sense of where something is but looking at your phone your fear that the I is searching for a signal and its only at 1%. that feeling of knowing you could have done more = brought a charging block or downloaded the map or written out the instructions. Something more than just glancing at the address. its a new city and you don’t know which throughways or which is north. You can guess – wander – take wrong turns and back track – but you will definitely be late. There is just enough time to get their if you go directly. What do you do? Trust your underwhelming directional sense? Ask someone? So you ask, and it sounds so obvious when they explain. Until you keep walking and don’t see any street names. The sidewalk is running out. The light is lowering. You are either in shadow or blinding light reflected off glossy high rise towers. You are frozen at an intersection with no cross walk.