Vaddey Ratner: The Power of Storytelling

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/14/158691935/in-the-shadow-of-death-stories-survive

"I actually want to tell a story about the power of storytelling to transcend suffering. Because it was the stories that saved me, the stories, the poetry that my father left behind."
-Vaddey Ratner

I haven't read this book - I only read this review this morning - but this quote pretty much encapsulates everything this blog is about. I think words and storytelling have immense power - the power to transcend, to transport. To save.

To stories, poetry and words transcending suffering.