Thanks Hannah. Such a lovely meditation. I really relate to your point about two kinds of story, about heroes and community.
It reminds me of Ursula Le Guin’ carrier bag theory of storytelling. She identifies this dualism of hero and community as stories that are, and about, “Long, straight things” and those stories that are about “containers”.
In her narrative, she adds a time dimension to the dualism. It suggests that stories capture the impulse to be hero on a long, straight journey. But it also acknowledges how that journey creates the container who can support and sustain community.
I see this journey as the prelude - a time of growth, learning, experiencing, resolving - to our place stories. It adds in the becoming and being that comes before rebirth and renewal.
Just lovely writing.....so aware and gentle.
Thanks Hannah. Such a lovely meditation. I really relate to your point about two kinds of story, about heroes and community.
It reminds me of Ursula Le Guin’ carrier bag theory of storytelling. She identifies this dualism of hero and community as stories that are, and about, “Long, straight things” and those stories that are about “containers”.
In her narrative, she adds a time dimension to the dualism. It suggests that stories capture the impulse to be hero on a long, straight journey. But it also acknowledges how that journey creates the container who can support and sustain community.
I see this journey as the prelude - a time of growth, learning, experiencing, resolving - to our place stories. It adds in the becoming and being that comes before rebirth and renewal.
Xx Terri