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Preserving a Storyteller’s Legacy To Those Who Believe in the Power of Story, I chase stories that shape souls and shift perspectives. Sometimes, those stories lead me to people like Sunny Dooley. Sunny is a master Navajo storyteller—one of the few women trained in the traditional art of Diné oral storytelling. Her voice carries generations…

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Madagascar, October 2000 My face was pressed against a steamy taxi window, staring at moving images while I tried to spirit my mind halfway around the globe. This place was, by map miles, the farthest location on the planet away from my home. My time in Madagascar had been difficult. I was physically exhausted from…

Continued from https://shawnsmallstories.com/an-amazon-adventure-part-i/ A few days downriver, we stayed in the small village of Oran. The village mayor greeted us as special guests and allowed us to set up our tents on his elevated porch. The deck, like the rest of the houses in Oran, sat on stilts ten feet off the ground, leaving a…