title: Some People You Will Always Love: Finding the Stories that Satisfy Your Soul
author: Lynn Baskfield
description: Lynn Baskfield, M.A., is a personal life coach who uses story to help people deepen their understanding of what fulfills them and to enable them to take meaningful action in their lives. She is a guide who accompanies people as they mine the ore of their own stories. She is a listener who listens for the gold. She is a seeker who is taught and touched by the experience revealed in the stories people tell. Her story The Giving Blanket received a Soul Making Literary Prize from the National League of American Pen Women.
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  # Pinball, 1973
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Murakami Haruki
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Translated by Alfred Birnbaum
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1969-1973
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I used to love listening to stories about faraway places. It was almost
  pathological.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There was a time, a good ten years ago now, when I went around latching onto
  one person after another, asking them to tell me about the places where they
  were born and grew up. Times were short of people willing to lend a
  sympathetic ear, it seemed, so anyone and everyone opened up to me, obligingly
  and emphatically telling all. People I didn't even know somehow got word of me
  and sought me out.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was as if they were tossing rocks down a dry well: they'd spill all kinds
  of different stories my way, and when they'd finished, they'd go home pretty
  much satisfied. Some would talk contentedly; some would work up quite an anger
  getting it out. Some wo