Kaitlin Curtice on The Living Nature of Our Stories 

Do you ever wish you could hear more from the authors we feature in our Daily Meditations? 

Today, we invite you to a thoughtful conversation between Potawatomi author and poet Kaitlin Curtice, as well as Mark Longhurst, Publications Manager at CAC. Together, they discuss how stories can be living beings that shape our world. 

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Using the lifecycle of an oak tree, Kaitlin provides a metaphor for how stories are born, grow, and eventually return to the earth. She invites listeners to approach the world with childlike curiosity and humility, recognizing that nature has stories to tell us.  

“I write about lethal loving and liminal stories,” explains Kaitlin. She asks us, “What stories are truly loving? What stories are lethal and oppressive? And what stories are liminal where we don’t really know yet?” 

Are You an Like Acorn? A Poetry Reading by Kaitlin Curtice 

In what ways are our stories seeds of new beginnings? Consider how the humble acorn grows into the mighty oak tree with this short poem from the book Everything Is a Story by Kaitlin Curtice, whose work is regularly featured in Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations. 

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What emerged for you through hearing this poem? In what ways has Kaitlin offered you a new perspective on the nature of stories? After watching these videos, we invite you to sit with these questions, perhaps even using them as a journal prompt. 

Step deeper into new ways of embodying our 2025 Daily Meditations theme of Being Salt and Light in this moving interview. 

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