Month: December 2019
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Something for the Turning of the Year
After Bedevere’s second attempt to throw Excalibur into the lake, he returned to his King: ‘Lord, please. It’s impossible for me.’ ‘Seems impossible, sweet friend. Remember that Christmas morning the hawthorn flowered, the day we found Lancelot. Seemed impossible. But it happened, as if by giving ourselves again and again to the unknown we opened…
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Sharon Blackie on “Falling out of Myth” and the Mythic Imagination.
Sharon Blackie at TEDx talking about the Mythic Imagination. I love how her examples of “Post-heroic” stories are all old, old tales.