{"id":2497,"date":"2023-12-25T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2023\/12\/25\/the-enduring-gift-of-stories\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:55:23","slug":"the-enduring-gift-of-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2023\/12\/25\/the-enduring-gift-of-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The enduring gift of stories"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-html mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            By Jacqui Banaszynski<br \/><br \/><span class=\"legacy-dropcap\">I<\/span> am a Christmas person, without apology. I long ago left behind institutional religious practice. I no longer go big on decorations. But upbringing, culture and, mostly, the deep quite of solstice-time make it a feeling I embrace. For whatever reason, it makes me more reflective \u2014 something I think I should be more often in this zoom-zoom era. I often sense that same deepening in people around me, whether they mark Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or the solstice or the many other traditions that center in this time of year.<br \/><br \/>For me, reflection often comes through story, which I expect is true for many in the Storyboard community. Written stories always lead with me, but at Christmas I let myself indulge in more movies than usual. There is much to learn from how movies are made \u2014 the development of characters, the structure that pulls us through a narrative, the framing of time, the context (backstory) they include and the parts that are missing, the empathy they can inspire even as we know the emotions are manipulated.<br \/><br \/>As journalists, we need to guard against the manipulation. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we shouldn&#8217;t center much of our work in the emotional center that shapes people&#8217;s lives. That&#8217;s where we find the universal themes that can shape the best of narrative nonfiction. It can also remind us that story work so essential to the human journey.<br \/><br \/>In that spirit, I invite you to revisit an archived post about a <a title=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fniemanstoryboard.us9.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D5776bbdcabe9b960b10ae1302%26id%3D7720dfa1f2%26e%3Df8c051ce24&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cbanaszynskij%40missouri.edu%7Cca9c929aea0747f0990308dc0320638d%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638388684861243419%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=x4bBO3rgoSoFpnpcHLnhIoh0n7nBV%2BTMCi5Qmc3A7GE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fniemanstoryboard.us9.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D5776bbdcabe9b960b10ae1302%26id%3D7720dfa1f2%26e%3Df8c051ce24&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cbanaszynskij%40missouri.edu%7Cca9c929aea0747f0990308dc0320638d%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638388684861243419%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=x4bBO3rgoSoFpnpcHLnhIoh0n7nBV%2BTMCi5Qmc3A7GE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>wondrous bit of story wisdom<\/strong><\/a> from the movie &#8220;A Boy Called Christmas.&#8221; It has become one of my faves, right up there with &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life,&#8221; &#8220;Miracle on 34th Street&#8221; (the 1947 version with Maureen O&#8217;Hara, John Payne and a young Natalie Wood) and &#8220;Love, Actually.&#8221; I apologize for none of these. This is the time of the year I let my inner romantic override my professional tendency to critical realism. That&#8217;s been a challenge of late, given heartache over Ukraine, Gaza, anti-humane events around the world and disfunction in these dis-United States. Those movies \u2014 fantastical as they are \u2014 remind me of the human miracle of hope.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e4c2CVon1U40DarA1OWOfBoDYmE-e1703536464487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-178463\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e4c2CVon1U40DarA1OWOfBoDYmE-e1703536464487.jpg\" alt=\"The Grinch from the animated version of Dr. Seuss's &quot;How the Grinch Stole Christmas&quot;\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a>My all time Christmas story and movie is &#8220;How the Grinch Stole Christmas.&#8221; The book, published in 1957, is as good as Dr. Seuss got \u2014 and that&#8217;s saying something. The man was a master of memorable character and word play.<br \/><br \/>As for the movie, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the 2000 version with Jim Carrey; it&#8217;s fine, but doesn&#8217;t hold a winter candle to\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060345\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1966 animated version<\/a>. I always find myself enchanted by the wisps of hair ribboned to the top of Cindy-Lou Who&#8217;s head and her unabashed curiosity\u00a0 \u2014 not to mention those anim\u00e9 eyes. And that swell of music and belief rising up from Whoville at the end, after the green-faced Grinch stole all Christmas presents and food &#8230;<br \/><br \/>Let&#8217;s just say my heart grows three sizes when I watch it.<br \/><h3><strong>The heart of story<\/strong><\/h3><br \/>This year a dear journalist friend sent me another reason for me to love the Grinch \u2014 and connected it to the work we do at Storyboard. The link he sent was to an essay by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/ron-charles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Charles<\/a>, a book critic who writes the Book Club newsletter for The Washington Post. Headline: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/how-the-grinch-stole-my-heart\/ar-AA1lrwgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Grinch stole my heart.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>I urge you to find and read the piece, whether or not you&#8217;re a Christmas person. It&#8217;s a story that transcends, in so many ways. (If you don&#8217;t have a subscription to The Post, ask someone to gift you a link.)<br \/><br \/><figure id=\"attachment_178465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178465\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2023-12-25-at-12.38.13\u202fPM-e1703536857915.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178465\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2023-12-25-at-12.38.13\u202fPM-e1703536857915.png\" alt=\"Washington Post book critic Ron Charles\" width=\"350\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Charles<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/><br \/>What really stole Charles&#8217;s heart was not the Grinch or even Cindy Lou Who. It was his daughter, who was born some 30 years ago with cerebral palsy. In an effort to soothe her \u2014 and themselves \u2014 Charles and his wife read to her as they rocked her in their arms. They leaned on story after story. Their daughter seemed to light up most at Seussian silliness, so they worked through the canon.<br \/><br \/>And then they read her the &#8220;Grinch.&#8221; Thus anchored a tradition that has endured. From Charles&#8217;s essay, quoting Seuss:<br \/><blockquote>&#8230;our most enduring love was for the zany sounds of Dr. Seuss. As he would say: \u201cIt started in low. Then it started to grow.\u201d<\/blockquote><br \/>As for my friend&#8217;s reference to the Storyboard mission \u2014 again, I urge you to hunt down a copy of the essay. Charles leans into Seuss&#8217;s rhythms and riffs in ways few writers can do without sounding either lazy or cheesy:<br \/><blockquote>&#8230; like the best children\u2019s books, Dr. Seuss\u2019s work lures readers into the forbidden realm of wickedness. When the Grinch is caught stealing a Christmas tree by Little Cindy-Lou Who, who was not more than 2, we experience an essential thrill of literature: <i>the chance to be both<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 both the little girl so easily fooled\u00a0<i>and<\/i>\u00a0the furry unctuous liar who has no shame.<\/blockquote><br \/>Along the way, he provides context for what makes Seuss&#8217;s writing so wondrous \u2014 and his stories both timely and eternal:<br \/><blockquote>&#8230; this is not a story about conversion or ideological purity. It\u2019s a story about learning to live with, even to appreciate and revel in, the traditions of others. In a world so divided by adamantine convictions about who\u2019s right, who\u2019s worthy and how we should behave, the Grinch\u2019s great revelation, <i>his heart-expanding compromise<\/i>, is a model for everyone in Whoville and beyond.<\/blockquote><br \/>* * *<br \/><br \/><em>A version of this essay was first published as a Storyboard newsletter on Dec. 22, 2023.<\/em>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacqui Banaszynski am a Christmas person, without apology. I long ago left behind institutional religious practice. I no longer go big on decorations. But upbringing, culture and, mostly, the deep quite of solstice-time make it a feeling I embrace. 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