Without stories, the knowledge would die and when the knowledge was gone, everything else would die too. Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe, Treading Lightly The land was endless and infinitely rich. Every rock, every hill, every stream had a story about her origin, her life and her meaning in the…

“Energy is the measurable expression of the revolt of spirit against its imprisonment in matter.” John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky The dark made her aware of her existence as a spark of light. She defined herself by what she was not. She was light; everything around her wasn’t…

He appeared in the village late in the evening, when decent folk had long gone to bed. Only the innkeeper saw him ride through while he was closing the one guesthouse in the wide vicinity. “There you have one,” the innkeeper thought, “I never thought I’d live to see the…

He kept finding himself trapped inside this maze of his own making. It was constructed from memories, fragments of stories and imagined events. In his head these building blocks had combined and interlocked until they surrounded him without offering any way out. He had tried to escape many times. He…

The soldier knew exactly what his mission was and how important . “As long as even one of those bastards is still alive, there can be no peace”, he had been told. …

The Nursing Home The old woman sat in her chair next to the window, looking out over the parking lot and the poorly maintained bit of greenery nobody but the nursing home’s website would describe as “lush and verdant parklands.” …

Several days into a slow and arduous journey he found himself at the edge of an ominous looking forest. From a distance, the trees looked massive and strong, towering against the sky. Their branches spread out wide and high, supporting leafy crowns that appeared healthy and full of life. Coming…

Nobody could say the fires came unexpected. It had been the longest drought in recorded history. For years, the Summer rains had failed to arrive. The land was parched. Everywhere the trees were bare and dying, the forest floor covered in ankle-high layers of dead, brown leaves. Where walls of…

Yesterday, on the news, we were told the baseline for future weather comparisons would be adjusted. The ‘normal weather’ that is referred to when comparing current weather data to past weather is an average taken over the past 30 years. …