When the Avalanche Reveals the Valley

Romancing the Threshold · Nov 6, 2025 · 1h 2m · transcript

When an avalanche buries your world, what gets revealed? Author Ella Larson joins me to explore how her Hidden Folk series teaches us to meet catastrophic change with curiosity rather than with the tension of 'white knuckling it.' We discuss why love is a choice that transforms us from separate entities into something larger, how "in-between" spaces are fertile ground for becoming, and why being truly seen is both the price and gift of belonging. Drawing from her own threshold crossing to Norway and the hidden valleys of her fiction, this conversation illuminates how approaching our avalanche…