Stories that Help: Courage and Hope in a Difficult World.
This is a book of fifty short stories, all written to be read out loud. Some of the stories are gentle, others are tougher. Some of them are very old, others are new. The stories are in four suites: Earth, Love, Resistance and Peace.
The intention to be read aloud is part of my advocacy for the value of storytelling to aid individual and community well being - hearing and telling stories can nurture resilience, learning, remembering and power. Of course you can also just read them to yourself!
To envision and build a better world, we need flourishing imaginations. By telling stories aloud, I try to encourage this in listeners and readers alike.
“This is not the kind of book one reads from page one to one hundred, with the TV on in the background, or while dropping off to sleep at bedtime. This is the type of book you pick up from the shelf, from time to time, not even everyday, just when you need to. You do it when something inside is asking you to look at those pages” Claudio Molinario