May 15, 2022-- "The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking. It always was. Not punditry, allegory, or mandate, but mythmaking. The creation of stories. We are tuned to do so, right down to our bones. The bewilderment, vivacity, and downright slog of life requires it. And such emerging art forms are not to cure or even resolve uncertainty but to deepen into it. There's no solving uncertainty. Mythmaking is an imaginative labor not a frantic attempt to shift the mood to steadier ground. There isn't any." As we walk our questions into a troubled future, storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw invites us to subvert todays voices of certainty and do the hard work of opening to mystery. (1665 reads)