Reflections on the craft of storytelling, applied narrative, and the transformative power of stories.
I assure you: we are famous and we matter. Colombian storytellers are widely recognized for the diversity of our oral expression, born from a deeply mixed cultural history.
I want to propose a journey to you: a path of uncertainty, a challenge. Follow me on this crossing and I promise you will leave this article understanding the game of writing in a different way.
When was the last time you went to San Antonio Hill? If you come with me through this text, we will remember together and I will invite you to rethink this emblematic place.
At some point, someone in my family must have wondered: when will Jhohann outgrow this storytelling thing and commit to something serious?
In the next few minutes, as you join me through this inventory, I will share something that became part of my life and now shapes what I am and what I want to become.
We all need answers and we chase them in a frenzy, like someone who lost a magic ring. Stories are what best satisfy that hunger to know.
After ten at night in 2007, when my storytelling set at San Antonio Hill ended, I discovered my backpack had been stolen. I had left it beside other belongings.
I was thinking about why I entered the ancient craft of telling stories when my mother came up behind me with a gift: a toy car, a 56 Ford.
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