Dan Yashinsky
American-born storyteller and writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The purpose of oral stories is to help us remember that life on our green earth is lived by daylight and by story-light. That is why even the most skeptical listen with open hearts when the storyteller begins. Storytropic, we're drawn to narrative as naturally as sunflowers opening to the light.
—Dan Yashinsky, American-born storyteller and writer, Suddenly They Heard Footsteps, 2004
Posted on May 5, 2004 at 10:59 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
We step into the future with less connection to ancestral guidance than any human generation before us. Although we have invented amazing technologies for saving data, we are at risk of forgetting our personal, family and cultural stories. We broadcast our voices over vast distances, but talk less to our neighbours. Haunting these changes are the spectres of continuing violence, planetary degradation and, above all, the danger that we'll come to believe the implacable message of the powerful: that resistance is futile. The old stories teach us that resistance is never futile.
—Dan Yashinsky, American-born storyteller and writer, Suddenly They Heard Footsteps, 2004
Posted on April 21, 2004 at 6:44 AM
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