Humainologie creative dialogue Amor Fati and the Story of Your Life tonight Wednesday April 14
- Arthur Clark
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min read
“I know that history at all times draws the strangest consequence from remotest cause.” - T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Amor fati is a life skill. At our team practice for amor fati tonight, please note that the movie “The Theory of Everything” can be a useful resource for that purpose. Here is a scene from the movie that illustrates its potential value for learning amor fati
As I watched “The Theory of Everything” again recently, I realized that good movies and amor fati can also help us with writing short stories. Our Humainologie Short Story Writing Festival this year again invites each of you to contribute a good story. Salima has suggested a theme for the stories, this year’s theme being “Lost and Found.” However, the important thing is to get started with writing stories and pick one to help make our festival this year even better than last year’s. Here is the link for the festival:
Here is a short video for land acknowledgement tonight.
You might have Indigenous ancestry, and you could have your DNA checked to find out. Take a journey. Try this
or this
In any case, we should be aware that we share the land with those whose ancestors were often brutally displaced from it; and sometimes that was done by our ancestors.
I have appended below this message some good questions for tonight, and also again the Zoom link.
Amor fati,
Arthur
Good questions to help you warm up for team practice tonight:
1. Please tell us about some very difficult challenge or setback you have had to deal with in your lifetime, and what you learned from that experience.
2. Is it possible that this difficult experience you had might have helped you love life more fully (helped you build your amor fati skill set)?
3. Would you be able to write a short story based on that life experience? Would you try if you knew ahead of time that your story will be as inspiring to those who read it, as the movie “The Theory of Everything” has been to those who have seen it?
4. Can you contribute a short story to the Humainologie Short Story Writing Festival this year?
5. Which of the following two outcomes of your experience in writing a story for the festival would exert a more powerful pull on you to actually get started with writing?
a. As you begin writing you find that your amor fati begins growing very rapidly, far beyond anything you could have imagined before you began writing the story.
b. Your story goes viral after you have contributed it to the festival and is made into an award-winning movie.
6. Keeping in mind that it is a festival, not a contest, please come up with a brilliant idea for making it almost irresistible for people to contribute stories they have written to our Humainologie Story Writing Festival.
Topic: Humainologie creative dialogue Time: April 14, 2021 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Every week on Wed, until Apr 28, 2021, 9 occurrence(s) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83720756307?pwd=WVU2OGo3ZjMzWVMwdlVZUzY1RVMwdz09 Meeting ID: 837 2075 6307 Passcode: 12345
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