Story Paths

Here's the article for this episode, with pictures and prompts: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/555eb054-2321-4811-b15c-a6746d84cdd2 Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. This is a Storyteller’s diary edition. As I tell the tale of this one life, may it help you to tell your tales. In part one, I spoke about how I met an old friend of my father's after twenty years, and how we began...

Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter, a Storyteller’s Diary edition. Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/b44f0ad4-f7b9-4d14-b975-1b34ebc4dee2 (Available for paid Substack subscribers)You'll also find images connected to this episode.--- I'm on pilgrimage again, but it's different this time. Before, it was overseas, inside the myths of those palms, hi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Share your stories on the newsletter here: https://storypaths.substack.com/ Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter and Podcast. A Story Elements Edition. Journeys: Part five. Oute…

Which real-life story does this remind you of? Comments here (paid subscribers): https://storypaths.substack.com/p/e817b97e-6206-4107-aa85-e6cbcfce7631 In the playground, a boy pushed down another child, and kept them pressed down while he rifled through their pockets, taking one thing after another. Then he let them go and said, ‘Every day you have to come bring me more.’ The child was frightened...

Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/fdce5cda-f28e-49fa-ad02-d8bbf05a27cc (Available for paid Substack subscribers) Find out more about Mr. Rodriguez’ work here: https://www.luisjrodriguez.com/ Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. I'm Theodore Lowry. Today, I'm glad to be presenting you with a conversation with Luis Rodriguez. This was an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Share your stories on the newsletter here: https://storypaths.substack.com/ Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter and Podcast. A Story Elements Edition. Journeys: Part Four Outer …

Write your guess on Substack here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/fb3a8ee4-f3d8-4df3-92ae-2070f2136363 Can you guess which real-life story this is? A confidence man, a modern-day coyote trickster, arrives in town. He brings a cart filled with stone slabs, each one soaked in luminescent oil. Distributing these slabs, he leads the unsuspecting townsfolk into a deep trance. Then, the confidence ma...

Here's the link to the article with pictures and prompts: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/9d6551a9-bd4d-48dc-b50c-1b33337d19c9 An Old Friend Part I: Crossing a River Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast. This is a Storyteller’s diary edition. I met an old friend of my father last night. As a teenager, he was also my friend, and a mentor. We met and spoke in the lounge of a hotel whe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/2486375c-6dd6-4b22-9398-b4b75c8d3f9f (Available for paid Substack subscribers) Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast, a story elements edition, where we explore the ingredients of stories so that you may better see them...

Which real-life story does this remind you of? Comments here (paid subscribers): https://storypaths.substack.com/p/57633e41-bf9e-42b6-bc1f-48410d5d1a6f There was a boy, out walking with his tribe, who came to the encampment of a different group. His tribe jeered and threw bits of wood over, but the boy was curious about those other people. He wished to be in a circle with them, exchanging ceremoni...

Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/de0c4826-9ab0-43f2-9f63-291a9f883ea3 . (Available for paid Substack subscribers)There, you'll also find pictures of Matteo test-playing his games. To watch the video of this conversation, go here: https://youtu.be/Rr0PG7HBusY Find out more about Matteo's work here: https://ma.tteo.me For his climate change game, Day...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit storypaths.substack.com Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f7093e4f-4c77-4846-a1b5-7614fbe08e37 (Available for paid Substack subscribers) What inspires the journeys that we humans write into Stories? Surely the journeys of other humans inspire us. But what of other journeys? What of the jo...

Write your guess on Substack here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f691ae68-1e8b-4e85-aae6-724cab2c946b Can you guess which real-life story this is? In a land adorned with mountains, deserts, rivers, and lush valleys, a people peacefully roamed. Until a monster, fierce and insatiable, descended upon this land. This creature devoured entire rivers, carved into mountains, and threatened the land’s...

Reply to the story prompts in this episode here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/a363f193-f941-4ae9-aefa-01e09f72c32d .(Available for paid Substack subscribers) Story prompts: Are you on a journey now? How is it both different and akin to another journey you’ve made in the past? One might be a personal journey, another professional. One in youth, another later in life. One internal, another exte...

To reply to the story prompts, go to the Story Paths Substack here. Welcome to the first ‘Story Elements’, where we explore the ingredients of stories so that you may better see them and tell them. This is not a plot-setting character three-act structure, hero's journey kind of exploration, although some of that will be in here. We’re going for an exploration of story that is more organic and poet...

Watch the video here. Comment on the substack post here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/2ef7e4c2-4f0e-42c9-a6b2-b9840c11a364 In less than a week, we’re launching a newsletter about stories. It’s about seeing beneath the skin of life to find the stories within. It’s very interactive: full of story prompts, and there's a free and a paid version. As part of the launch, we're giving away 25 annual...

(To hear this newsletter with nifty music and sound effects, have a listen to the audio. You can listen here, or look up Story Paths in any podcasting place) Welcome to the Story Paths Newsletter and Podcast. We Are One Week Out… Wait, gotta turn off those capital letter before each word. Not Everything is a Title! Ahem. Next week I’ll be launching the first gale in a storm of story-learning goodn...

(there’s a rich audio version of this post above, if you’d care to listen) Welcome to season four of the Story Paths podcast, and newsletter. I'm writing this (originally on paper) from within a wooden cabin off-grid in a valley known as Saranagati Valley, a place with whom I share deep experiences at key points of my life. I’m looking out over arid hills and the misty valley in the early morning,...

I recently attended a Peacemakers’ Gathering, hosted by the Cowichan People, here in the Salish Sea Ecosystem. In this gathering, people came from all over to make bridges and heal ancestral hurts. In this episode I share a song inspire by the opening ceremony of this gathering, and my friend Eric Fair-Layman shares a beautiful and poignant poem about grief and grieving, inspired by the work of Ma...

Have you ever walked into a supermarket and wondered about the stories behind the food there on the shelf? Those corn chips… on which land did they grow, who tended them, and what is the inter-generational relationship between the corn seeds and the people who tended them over generations? How might we begin to bring story back into our food, our clothes, our fuel, and all the anonymous beings we...

What is a man? Who can father? When does it go right, and how can it go wrong? Poems by John O’donohue and Grace Paley Reflections by Amora Sun and Chay Beriault, and my weird self. Mentioned in the episode: The Outside Circle graphic novel , written by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and illustrated by Kelly Mellings. The Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss th...

Hello dear listener, Beneath the stories of everyday life - news, politics and the like - lie deeper stories. And deeper still. Back into deep time, and into the timeless. Into bedrock stories. As bedrock determines the alkalinity of the soil layered above it, these deep stories affect the many stories layered above. Through her relationship with a humble river in the north of England, Laura Burns...

Welcome to a special Mother's Day episode, where six guest poets and storytellers break down suffocating ideas of what a mother must be, to make space for the primal torrent of the earthy, crazy, profoundly deepening realites. And this isn't just about biological mothers, though god bless 'em, we need 'em. Our guests share traditional stories, heartfelt poems, and personal experiences that delve i...

Rob Hopkins is a champion of imagination, and he does something radical in these times: he helps people imagine a good future. Not a utopia, nor a dystopia, but the kind of rooted, realistic, multi-faceted, creative and juicy future that can draw us toward it. He’s found that frightening people with charts about climate change isn’t as potent as inviting them into what they’d like to see… and hear...

I must say I'm excited about this one. In this time, imagining an apocolypse is lazy. Imagining a mansion and money is likely self-indulgent. But how about a vibrant collective imagining of the future that is rooted deep in the past? Let's try that. This is a vision story, calling in possible futures, crafted and recorded with care. Subscribe on Substackk, free or $5 Skillshare class with free mon...