I have been asked a few times what exactly I will be doing and how I will be using (telling and collecting) stories while I am in Lesotho. In a face to face conversation it is easy to talk about the power and beauty of a story well told, and what I intend to do, however, I struggle putting it into a paragraph just so. For the sake of this blog I will use the following quote instead. I think it does a wonderful job of providing the answer to: "Why stories?"
"Stories open doors to areas or aspects of life that we didn't know were there, or had quit noticing out of over familiarity, or supposed were out of bounds to us. They then welcome us in. Stories are verbal acts of hospitality".
Eugene Petersen
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