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		<title>WANTED: Your Transformative Tales</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hinted about this a while back, but now I&#8217;m making it official.  I&#8217;d like to start collecting YOUR stories (and sharing them here in the &#8220;Bard&#8217;s Tales&#8221; category, along with my own personal anecdotes).  I&#8217;m interested in any kind of personal story, but I&#8217;m particularly looking for stories about events, ideas, and occurrences that: [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://thatdarnkat.com/wanted-your-transformative-tales/' addthis:title='WANTED: Your Transformative Tales ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hinted about this a while back, but now I&#8217;m making it official.  I&#8217;d like to start collecting <em>YOUR</em> stories (and sharing them here in the &#8220;Bard&#8217;s Tales&#8221; category, along with my own personal anecdotes).  I&#8217;m interested in any kind of personal story, but I&#8217;m particularly looking for stories about events, ideas, and occurrences that:</p>
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<li>Connected you to your ideals, beliefs or values in a more visceral, tangible way</li>
<li>Caused you to rethink or just revisit a previously-unquestioned belief</li>
<li>Prompted a positive change in a longstanding pattern of behavior</li>
<li>Resulted in a change in your goals and/or life&#8217;s direction</li>
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<div>In short, I&#8217;m looking for the bend in the road.  Frost&#8217;s &#8220;two roads diverged in a yellow wood&#8221; moment.  The event doesn&#8217;t have to be a huge one, and the result doesn&#8217;t have to be huge.  </div>
<div>I&#8217;m looking for stories that are significant, even if you think it&#8217;s just significant to you.  </div>
<div>I can credit the story with a link back to your blog.  If you want to be anonymous, I will make up a lovely pseudonym for you.   Or you can make up your own pseudonym, if you like.  I won&#8217;t publish every story I get, but I&#8217;m putting the invitation out there.  You can reach me at internetbard [at] gmail dot com.  </div>
<div><a href="http://internet-bard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/charlatan-smaller.jpg" rel="lightbox[285]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-286 alignleft" title="charlatan-smaller" src="http://internet-bard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/charlatan-smaller.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="150" /></a></div>
<div><strong>I believe stories matter.</strong>  <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/1/business-rule-7-sound-bytes-stories-and-analogies/" target="_blank">Stories</a> are how we reinforce the <a href="http://www.conversationagent.com/2008/07/we-talk-and-learn-by-story.html" target="_blank">lessons we&#8217;ve learned</a>, and pass them on to others.  Stories are transformative.  They make <a href="http://levite.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/how-is-it-with-your-soul/" target="_blank">what&#8217;s important, personal</a>.  They make <a href="http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/" target="_blank">what&#8217;s personal, important</a>.  Story is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler" target="_blank">compiler</a> that translates experiences into meaning (and back again into a changed experience).  </div>
<div>I&#8217;m going to continue to tell my own personal tales, here, as well.  But I wanted to add some new voices to the mix, some fresh stories that come from different people, moving through their own different experiences.  </div>
<h6>img courtesy <a href="http://www.sxc.hu/photo/719512" target="_blank">sxc</a></h6>
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