Aotearoa/Pacific Island author, Cherie Barford writes about Talkstory and the importance of storytelling in Our Stories are Within Us:  “Our stories are within us. You’ll find them encoded in genealogies, embedded in our hearts, imprinted on our minds. They migrate with the tongues that tell them …truly precious stories, those that hold sacred truths within them, can never be lost. They are kept intact by the universe itself. They exist beyond everything we can touch and