Other Serious Matters

Elders have been sitting around campfires, telling stories for as long as there have been campfires and Elders.  Until the most recent few thousand years, storytelling was the only way human learning could get passed on. Today, aside from tall tales of fish that got away, it remains as effective as ever.

Good storytellers often use analogy and metaphor to highlight the underlying message, so it doesn’t get lost in the details. With that caveat in mind, this is a collection of such potentially helpful stories that don’t fit well anywhere else in the menu.