life is stories… and as we tell them, we’re able to connect – as individuals, as a community, as well as to our surroundings and nature. from traditional storytelling to our own life stories and stories that arise at the moment, long developed or improvised on the spot: sharing is both serious and fun, and very powerful.
part of the stories is also critically thinking about media, images, selfie-culture, fake news and different realities.
Home isn’t Mom and Dad and Sis and Bud. Home isn’t where they have to let you in. It’s not a place at all. Home is imaginary.
Home, imagined, comes to be. It is real, realer than any other place, but you can’t get to it unless your people show you how to imagine it – whoever your people are.
They may not be your relatives. They may never have spoken your language. They may have been dead for a thousand years. They may be nothing but words printed on paper, ghosts of voices, shadows of minds. But they can guide you home. They are your human community.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills, we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
– Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018 in
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination