As a storyteller, do you ever think that means we’ve run out of things to say?No. Families get together and they tell stories. How many times have you talked about that summer where dad drove the car into the lake, or whatever? There’s something reassuring to revisiting stories, the kind of ancient storytelling tradition of the campfire: “Tell me that story again.”

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

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