Words and stories

People often undermine the role words and stories play in our lives. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how the dominant culture, for their own purposes, defines the stories we believe to be absolute and true.

We amble along within those narratives and many of us never stop and look around and, more especially, look outside the walls of those stories to see the other possibilities.  We don’t scratch the surface a bit, or carefully pick at the word choices that are the ingredients that make those stories.

I’m currently doing research for my third historical novel and one narrative where various tribes around Southern Africa like to believe is the story of purity. 

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