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Dancing With Stories and Conjuring Reality
They tell us who we are and they enable us to survive…They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, because if you don’t have the stories, you don’t have anything.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
~ Dr. Seuss
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You probably think that you have to believe your thoughts (I know I do.) You probably think that you need to be better than you are (I know I do.) And you probably feel bad because of this (I know I do.)
— Vicky Woodyard
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A wild child sired by Hermes, as ‘master of instinctual soul’, he has something to teach about rhythms and range. Pan was a music man and called a great dancer. He made his appearance felt in choral gatherings, in the beat of rhythmic clapping, bringing communal order to private panic…Dance comes from out of the wild, and its intoxication lead is back into it…It is not Pan who is mad and must be healed, but the society who has forgotten how to dance with him.
— Dick Russell
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We live inside stories as humans, because we need to organize and direct our energies…
