5CT for May 2017

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From the new 5CT corporate headquarters on Whidbey Island, we bring you the No country for old men who love cortado’s edition. 1. Our editorial team uses Bear all day long. 2. Let’s say you’ve heard about ‘storytelling’ and how ‘storytelling’ might help your business. What to do? 3.Where do fairy tales come from? 4.Please do enjoy this sparkly shop window duet. 5. Poems from an unlikely — or perhaps not — place. “If you want to be happy, be,” said Leo Tolstoy and what, we should argue?

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The fear, the light, the code, the rain

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Photo by terry reed

Agreat writer pens an essay on fear in America. Meet a Seattle artist obsessed with light, magic and the everyday. The working mom who invented software. So many podcasts and one great app. Wherever you are, the rain makes its own sound. How could you not love this. “Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.”

– William Wordsworth

5CT June 2015

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G reetings from Torridon, on the west coast of Scotland. The big empty, as my friend Jamie Jauncey calls it. This issue circles back to (recently featured) Sherman Alexie, who just floored some Dark Angels. Torridon is geologically and visually stunning. Voice is central to Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Herbie Hancock’s chant. A periodic table of storytelling? Yes. And where to store all those wonders you find online? “My great-great uncle and Long Wolf understood that to be fully human means dwelling not just on the planet but in nature. That’s where our hearts beat strongest.” Jamie Jauncey

Dark Angels, Moniack Mhor 2015

5CT April 2015

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I f you could record your actual writing process, would you? A cool new app helps you manage and keep track of your expenses and receipts. Hayden Pedigo hails from Amarillo, Texas, and he plays like a dream. A great piece of science writing spills a big story. There’s only one man in the world who can make native advertising funny. Happy birthday to 5CT fan PB, sadly not long for Seattle. “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” ― T.S. Eliot

By Wyatt McSpadden

5CT February 2015

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The internet is one dark field of battle. The pictures out of Paris bewitch, bother and bewilder. A smart storytelling publisher chases commercial storytelling gigs. As you document the world, your smart phone camera goes wide and long. Alexey, with love for photography, from Russia. “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Instagram photo by @andri_benec

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Lake Ozette, Olympic Peninsula Wa

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Thomas Merton

"Now let us frankly face the fact that our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self. We live in a state of constant semi-attention to the sound of voices, music, traffic, or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time. This keeps us immersed in a flood of racket and words, a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted: we are not quite ‘thinking,’ not fully present and not entirely absent; not fully withdrawn, yet not completely available. It cannot be said that we are really participating in anything and we may, in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment…We just float along in the general noise…”

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Writing Shed, Whidbey Island

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Writing workshops

5CT RUNS ON CORTADO’S

photographs from one year

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