This podcast is about the people and events that have influenced our lives enough to cause us to remember the stories of how and when these memorable situation took place.
Did we meet a stranger or an old friend who did something that day to cheer us up? Did a person or a particular event cause us to think about a firmly held belief in a different way? Did a friend say something that we will not soon forget?
Life is full of stories we have lived. Often we don’t realize their effect on us until later, but somehow, that story sticks with us and causes us to consider other ways of thinking; other ways of being.
This is how it was for me. My childhood was full of people and events that are remembered now as if they had happened yesterday. I learned so much from my parents and other friends not by their preaching, or even by there telling me a story, but by their allowing me to come along with them inside the actual story itself.
I would like to tell you some of these stories and also hear about your stories that have taken you inside their telling.
I think there is also something quite magical about speaking one’s story aloud. It is not just a simple retelling. It is, in many ways, a reliving of that particular event that makes it become even more alive in our minds.
I have often wished that I had possessed the wisdom in my youth to thank the people who helped change my life. I cannot do now what I wanted to do for some of them because they are no longer with us. I can, however, honor the memory of what they have given me. I will promise to let people know when they had allowed me to be with them in an experience that has given me reason to remember just how lucky I was to be in their presence.
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