Quotes from the Matrix

"Follow the white rabbit." Trinity

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus

"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound of your death." - Agent

"I'm not afraid anymore." Trinity

Another concept for late night

3 story universe

Use video cameras to create videos

Tell stories describing how our stories have crossed the life of Jesus and then crossed the lives of others.

A different concept for late night

Use cuts from videos to cover important themes

the Incredibles
the Matrix
Pass it Forward

A concept for late night

An emerging dilemma:

An initial development
..a response in writing or from a team
....a discussion of the answers
......division into responses
........the twists: where the responses lead
......work on the answer to the response
....discussion of the answers
..an evalation of the answers to twist
an evaluation of the answers to dilemma

A concept for staff development

Discuss the spiritual and leadership development of children and adolescents.

Fourteen steps to an unforgettable story

1. Find your story
2. Push through the story
3. Envision the scene with present-day feelings and concern
4. Tell the story from the view of someone at the scene
5. Establish the story's one central truth
6. Find a memory hook
7. Tell a story within a story
8. Plan your first words
9. Know how it ends
10. Research the facts
11. Eliminate needless details
12. Add descriptions that will bring life to the story
13. Include audience participation
14. Arrange practice audiences

from The Art of Storytelling by John Walsh

Ideas for stories

Return to the pilgrimage concept

Develop the concept of the rescuer, who helps those imprisoned in a cave

A people setting out to form a utopian community (theocracy)

A spiritual Watership Down

The bears in the cave

The lighthouse keeper who longs to go instead of stay

Dolphins and reality

Previous story lines

The farmer
The traveler
The shepherd king
The bridge builder
Four friends in search of truth
Stories from Samuel

Steve's outline for the week

Here's a summary of what we have for the evening flagpole for Dare to Be.

Sunday "Ya gotta wanna" Courage motivated by passion
Monday "Random acts of kindness" Kindness; believe and stay the course
Tuesday "You, not me" Humility
Wednesday "Can't help the love" Compassion
Thursday "Wait on the Lord" Patience
Friday "Softly and tenderly" Gentleness

This is just a different way of organizing what Steve has laid out so that it's easier to check the direction of it. Is there an intended progression? I'm trying to look at this not so much linearly, but trying at least to leave a way to connect the dots at the end.

The first post . . .

This is the initial post to the Peak Week flagpole blog. Here I hope to develop ideas for the storyline, and the individual narratives that will be a part of Peak Week 2005.