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Month: January 2025

  • A thousand rooms

    Hear and hold a Romanian folktale adapted from How the King chose a daughter-in-law in Ragan, K. (1998). Fearless girls, wise women and beloved sisters: heroines in folktales from around the world (pp. 73-74). Bantam Books. Listen beyond the gendered heteronormative tropes, follow the thread…. and ponder. What quest might you have a go at…

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  • The Banza

    This story is one that I learnt many decades ago from the fabulous Diane Wolkstein (who used to be New York city’s official storyteller). Thank you to the beautiful storytellers of Haiti for their wisdom. This story gives me great strength wrapped in warmth & humour. What instrument is at one with your heart? What…

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  • The well at the world’s end

    Today I draw from Scottish folklore. A quest to a well at the world’s end, as many across the world desperately seek water to quench raging thirst and fires. What is your well at the world’s end? As we witness the entitled increasingly taking hold of the world, notice how acts of kindness are rewarded.

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  • Echtra Mac n-Echach Muigmedoin

    Join me to ponder the wisdom of an old Irish tale … adapted from Sharon Blackie’s version in Hagitude: Reimagining the second half of life (pp. 113-114). What ‘ugliness’ do you need to lie and soften with? What tests of mutual care and respect with Earth might you need to pass?

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  • The Good people’s shawl

    As a new year begins sit with the wisdom of this old tale from the Isle Of Man adapted from ‘The Good People’s Shawl’ (pp. 164-167) in Kerven, R. (2019). Faeries, elves & goblins: The old stories. Batsford. Who are the Good People in your world? What is the shawl that you wrap yourself with?

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