Rwanda–nowadays most people only think of genocide at the sound of that name. They grow great coffee and have lots of gorillas roaming free also, but mostly we know Rwanda as the place where people killed their neighbors for 90 days until one million bodies were littered across the land. One of the students here was there. He watched his uncles gathering around the house talking. Then they started out across the yard to the neighbors with machettes in hand. They chased his playmate and his family up a tree and told them that they might as well come down. Then they killed them all. Children first.

The student said, “This killing was caused by stories. None of us have ever experienced cruelty from the Tutsis. That was over 100 years ago. But our grandparents told the stories over and over so that we hated them and said they needed to die.” One thing that tells you a lot about a person is the stories they tell and retell throughout their lives. What stories are you telling?