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Location	The Eastern Ouachitas
Introduction	Perhaps it is an Arkansas thing, but I grew up listening to story tellers... everyone seemed to have a nack for telling tales, not faerie-tales or yarns, but stories based on biography, familial history and area lore. I find today that I seem to fall back on 'the story' to convey concepts and thoughts that I have on just about every subject -perhaps to a fault. But the further along this journey I go the more I see the narrative utilized in the broader world of marketing, advertising, and politics. Engaging in or even controlling the narrative seems to be the way we function as a community. I am reminded of something I read from Bruce Chatwan, The Songlines, perhaps, where he spoke of the Songline as a tool for conveying one's personal story along with the spiritual story of creation. The Story is a tool used by society to explain where we are and how we got here. It is used to help us understand who we are and why. It is also a weapon used by aggressors and the aggrieved to delineate the "Us from Them". This was a poingant concept which Chatwin touched upon (or perhaps someone he was writing about touched on...) which was reinforced for me in reading Joseph Campbell.

Location

The Eastern Ouachitas

Introduction

Perhaps it is an Arkansas thing, but I grew up listening to story tellers... everyone seemed to have a nack for telling tales, not faerie-tales or yarns, but stories based on biography, familial history and area lore. I find today that I seem to fall back on 'the story' to convey concepts and thoughts that I have on just about every subject -perhaps to a fault. But the further along this journey I go the more I see the narrative utilized in the broader world of marketing, advertising, and politics. Engaging in or even controlling the narrative seems to be the way we function as a community. I am reminded of something I read from Bruce Chatwan, The Songlines, perhaps, where he spoke of the Songline as a tool for conveying one's personal story along with the spiritual story of creation. The Story is a tool used by society to explain where we are and how we got here. It is used to help us understand who we are and why. It is also a weapon used by aggressors and the aggrieved to delineate the "Us from Them". This was a poingant concept which Chatwin touched upon (or perhaps someone he was writing about touched on...) which was reinforced for me in reading Joseph Campbell.