It's about stories. When you get right down to it, it's all about stories. Stories are how we make sense of the world we live in, the people we meet, the things we do. Life is stories.
Each of us is the star of our own little miniseries, but it's the sharing of stories that makes life interesting. My favorite stories are always the ones that step back and take the oblique view -- "a look askance" as it were. That's where we find the ideas that throw us out into the middle of the ocean, and make us swim back to our own familiar shore, to regain the ground beneath our feet. But regain our footing with a broader understanding of how big a world we live in. It all comes down to joining the dance.
"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
The further off from England the nearer is to France --
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
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