Story

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story or tell a story about them."

-Karen Blixen

14

"But for all the potential tales of woe that they suggest, scars are also signposts of optimism. If your body is game enough to knit itself back together after a hard physical lesson, to make scar tissue, that means you're still alive, means you're on the path toward healing."

-Dana Jenning

12

“We started by talking to the beggars and we said at what point did you start to beg?”- Muhammad Yunnis.

8

"there's nothing quite like it.

people. everywhere. from all over. doing something so unbelievably difficult and miraculous. each with a story. running together. a moving quilt covering the blacktop streets. an endless stream of wordless music as their feet meet the pavement.

kate and i were walking across 62nd street towards first avenue, approaching the party, when we saw runners. moving at a speed you can't even imagine. whoosh. whoosh. woosh. followed quickly by a news camera on a dolly. whoosh. and we realized, oh that's the lead pack. we just saw the very front-runners. live and in person. i took this as a very good omen for the month. had we arrived a minute sooner we would have been inside and walking up the stairs and missed their passing. a minute later and we wouldn't have had any idea. our timing was... fortuitous.

a tiding of all the good things to come. i think.

i hope."

-The Wild and Wily Ways of a Brunette Bombshell

4

"Remember there are people on your side doing it for the wrong reasons and people on the other side doing it for the right reasons." -from a senator