Category Archives: Story

Stopping the Chain of Abuse

Posted on January 17, 2011 by jenny

Journey into Courage brought me two amazing experiences of perpetrators turned around by our performance. Journey into Courage is a theater piece, written and performed by women who are survivors of domestic violence. Our work was guided and organized by … Continue reading →

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Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2010 by jenny

My favorite Christmas story is one about a school pageant. One of the students was a little slow, so they gave him the part of the innkeeper. All he had to say was “There’s no room in the inn,” and … Continue reading →

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A New Kind of Family

Posted on December 23, 2010 by jenny

The holidays are a time when we think about family, and sometimes ask who is our REAL family. Nowadays “family” is often an odd assortment of people not always related by blood. Two years ago my sister’s two daughters gave … Continue reading →

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Megalithic Slide Show

Posted on December 13, 2010 by jenny

(Written in December 2010) When I first imagined the ritual, I had been feeling really good about myself and my life. I thought I was completely healed, and I wanted to do a celebration. I planned to do the monologue, … Continue reading →

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More About “Story”

Posted on November 24, 2010 by jenny

What’s the difference between a story that helps you move on in your life, and one that’s just digging you deeper into the hole? Often a story that blames someone else for your difficulties is one that keeps you stuck. … Continue reading →

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Another Take on Stories

Posted on November 4, 2010 by jenny

When Jesus Came to Harvard, by Harvey Cox “…religious stories … point beyond themselves to a crucial dimension of human existence that defies reduction to empirical proof or disproof. Religious stories are often woven into rituals that enlist not just … Continue reading →

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Stories

Posted on November 3, 2010 by jenny

I’ve been thinking a lot about stories recently. Stories that strengthen us, and stories that just dig us deeper into the mud. It’s very important to be able to distinguish helpful stories from unhelpful ones, because it’s the story that … Continue reading →

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World of Diversity

Posted on July 25, 2010 by jenny

(Written over 2003 – 2005) In the spring of 2003, I went to NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival that’s held in Natick High School in Natick, Mass.  I fell in love with a Peruvian tapestry.  It was about 12” … Continue reading →

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Wild Turkeys

Posted on July 20, 2010 by jenny

It was 1996, the summer from Hell.  In February I had tried Paxil for 5 days while my terror shot through the roof & got worse & worse until the 5th night when I didn’t sleep at all.  So I … Continue reading →

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Awakening Kali

Posted on July 7, 2010 by jenny

Ingrid Bacci wrote a book called The Art of Effortless Living.  I liked it, so in March of 2008 I went to her workshop at Kripalu. I signed up for a private session, and it was pretty amazing.  Here are … Continue reading →

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