My talented family—
My husband, Allan Hunter, is the author of six books. In Stories We Need To Know he looks at 3,000 years of great literature and traces the six stages that characters go through to resolve the challenges they face. These stages are—The Innocent, The Orphan, The Pilgrim, The Warrior-Lover, The Monarch and The Magician. We go through these stages in our own life journeys, not once but every time we begin something new in one area of our lives or another. It can be so helpful to know what the stages are. They are guides only, of course, but a way to observe our own lives and to get a sense of the road ahead.
His latest, The Six Archetypes of Love, applies the same concept of a journey to our adventures in love. Using the same stages we get to see where we are in our relationships and how we might grow them.
My daughter, Anna Portnoy, is one of the editors and chief instigators of the book. Global Values 101. It’s based on a course taught at Harvard 2001-2004 by Brian Palmer in which he invited people who were doing work that had social value to come to speak to students. The book is a compilation of some of these extraordinary exchanges between students and people like Howard Zinn, Paul Farmer, Robert Reich and more. Ann Kim and Kate Holbrook also edited. The book is full of inspiration about how to create a more peaceful and conscious world.
