Journal December 2025 Release - Flipbook - Page 109
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My Fascination with Inquiry
Onix Morales Macías
This reflection is an attempt to trace where my devotion to questions comes
from—not as technique, but as a way of being with language, memory, and
others. Written in the wake of my apprenticeship in Contemporary Narrative
Therapy, it follows how questions began to reveal themselves to me as living
territories, ethical acts, and companions that shape what becomes possible in our
lives and relationships. What follows is not an argument, but an offering—an
invitation to linger with inquiry as a form of care.
My dad used to leave little notes inside books.
He underlined sentences as if there were a secret heartbeat inside them.
Sometimes he read them aloud to my brother and me.
I was six or seven years old; I didn’t fully understand the words,
but I could feel how he chewed on a paragraph for hours,
or for days, opening cracks, air vents,
as if he were searching for another world behind every sentence.
When I began reading literature, I imitated him without even noticing.
I wanted to magnify that gesture of his:
I would write the sentences that moved me on a wall,
as if the house itself needed to read them with me,
or maybe the others who came into the house could read them as small gifts.
I hid in the bathroom to reread them,
trying to decipher what was behind them,
what dent each word left behind over what I was living.
Years later, when I encountered narrative practices,
I understood why I did that: stories are doors;
behind every door lives more stories,
My Fascination with Inquiry
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, December 2025 Release, p. 107-111.
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