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Salmon Skin Drum part two · Mooney's Mythic Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Hola, welcome to Mooney's Mythic Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is the lost pod.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the lost pod.
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  This is a re-recording of the pod for anyone who was listening
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  to the last episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just cut off after about 15 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in true Mooney style, I recorded it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I uploaded it.
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  Then I did have a page of notes,
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  which I put on the fire and said thank you to the ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got no idea really what I said at the end of that pod.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do know that I was halfway through a story.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course,
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  I'm going to finish the story for you and share with you
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  whatever that has evoked.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are just jumping into this pod for the first time,
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  SPEAKER_00: go back to the beginning of the story and hear about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if you're just like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't got time for that,
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  then all you need to know is that there is a woman living in an
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  igloo who is
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing but bone.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's getting her needs met.
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  She's asking for what she wants at night and she's waking up in
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  the morning and
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  SPEAKER_00: it's arrived for her.
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  She's getting her needs met in some magical way that the story
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  doesn't tell you about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then one day there are some seal hunters,
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  SPEAKER_00: two brothers,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they're coming along and she looks at them.
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  She hasn't seen human for such a long time and the thirst in
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  her to connect with
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  SPEAKER_00: them is so huge and she
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  runs towards them and there she is clacking and chlorine and
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  banging their mouth
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  wide open and the pits of where her eyeballs were just just
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  these holes looking at
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  them and her long bony fingers reaching out to try and touch
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  them and they freak
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  out and they run away and she's sad she goes back to her home
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  and they go back to
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  SPEAKER_00: their home and they live with their old father
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  SPEAKER_00: The father that doesn't hunt anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: The father that stays at home.
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  The father that's been told,
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  I'll do that for you,
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  I'll do that for you,
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  I'll do that for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The father who feels at the end of his life,
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  SPEAKER_00: everything is shutting down,
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  SPEAKER_00: his world is getting smaller and smaller.
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  SPEAKER_00: And his sons tell him, this woman that they've seen, and he says to them,
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I haven't got anything to worry about.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm at the end of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go and take a look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's stirred.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he gets up that next morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he walks to where his sons have told him that the woman lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's there sitting at the mouth of her igloo.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when she sees him, she walks inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he follows her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they spend the night together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the morning she asks him.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he will make her a drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: A small drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with hands that have crafted throughout his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He begins the process of making a drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tanning and skinning and woodwork and sinew.
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  SPEAKER_00: He makes her a tiny little drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she starts to play this little drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: She turns off all the lights in the igloo.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's dark.
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  SPEAKER_00: Black dark.
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  SPEAKER_00: Magic dark.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she starts to play.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
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  SPEAKER_00: She starts to sing too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sounds really.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she can feel in her hands that her drum is beginning to grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Getting bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: She dances and the drum flows and the beat flows through her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the man says nothing, he's there in silent witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through the night she drums.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through the night she sings, through the night she dances.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the birds sing for the morning and the light begins to appear.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the man looks upon her and he sees a woman,
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  SPEAKER_00: fleshed out,
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  SPEAKER_00: full eyes,
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  SPEAKER_00: blood pumping and racing around her body,
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  SPEAKER_00: heart and lungs and liver.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed it all back.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed it all back in the night.
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  She's drummed herself back with his drum and her witnessing and
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  her song and her
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  SPEAKER_00: prayer and her dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And her voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed back her fingernails.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's drummed back her breasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed back the very skin around elbow and shoulder.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed back knees and toes.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed back sweat and scent.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's drummed back hair in all the places.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a quiet between them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A winter quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So much life has been born.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no words yet for what has occurred.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the night comes, they don't light the candles or the oil lamps.
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  SPEAKER_00: She drums again.
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  SPEAKER_00: His voice joins in.
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  SPEAKER_00: He begins to sing.
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  SPEAKER_00: At some point he feels himself swaying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that sway becomes a movement and that movement becomes a dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: He dances.
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  SPEAKER_00: In his own way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sounds and he dances through the night longing comes out of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grief, fear, joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He dances, he sways, he moves it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the day comes and he's young, virile, alive, light in his eyes.
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  ready to live again ready to open out into the world again and
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  hand in hand they
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  continue their life together something like that the story went
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  it felt good to
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  SPEAKER_00: drum then um
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  SPEAKER_00: Those of you that know me know that I have dyspraxia,
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  SPEAKER_00: so it's a very difficult thing to me to hold a rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it felt good to drum and I wonder what we can drum back.
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  I wonder with our drums what we can call back with just with
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  hitting a skin
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  stretched across something in the way that our ancestors have
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  done thousands of
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  SPEAKER_00: times for thousands of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what resonance can resound behind us?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know that that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: because I told you in my last pod that I'm making a salmon skin drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't got the salmon skin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I'm just preparing to tan it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I was telling my story wintering group,
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  obviously everything that happens in our story wintering group
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  is confidential.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a confidential circle for us to share our winter dreaming.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think I can tell you this bit.
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  So I'm telling my story wintering circle that I'm about to make
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  a salmon skin drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another woman is thinking about it too.
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  And then someone else says,
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  oh,
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  you know,
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  like about how the orcas are wearing salmons as hats.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're whales, orcas.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't know this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: about 30 years ago,
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  orcas started to go around in their pods with big salmons
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  across their heads.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they seem to be larking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this wasn't just in one pod.
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  This seemed to be like a craze that swept through orcas from
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  pod to pod to pod to
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  SPEAKER_00: pod all over the seas.
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  And yeah,
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  they seem to be larking around with these salmons on their heads.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it stopped.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then this year it started again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Orcas have been seen with salmons on their heads again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's suspected that that is because there's a lot of salmon.
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  Maybe there was a scarcity of salmon and you couldn't play with
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  it or celebrate with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There wasn't enough.
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  But this year there's more salmon than ever and so they can
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  play again and
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  SPEAKER_00: Apparently orcas do play.
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  They've been seen pushing seaweed down to the bottom of the sea
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  and then watching
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  SPEAKER_00: as it slowly rises up again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so someone told us about that and sent us an article about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then another woman said,
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  SPEAKER_00: well,
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  do you know that there are only three mammals that go through
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  the menopause?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the orca and the elephant and the human woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we fell into silence thinking about this,
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  SPEAKER_00: thinking about the association I was,
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  SPEAKER_00: thinking,
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  SPEAKER_00: well,
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  SPEAKER_00: what do I have in common with elephant and orca?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what a proud lineage that is, proud to be in that lineup.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then someone said, we must still have a lot to offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I really feel that for all of you
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  SPEAKER_00: who are listening to remember that wherever we are in our lives,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've still got a lot to offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we feel the winter sun on us, to remember that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know that word, apricity?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the warmth of the sun in wintertime.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I believe that it can really warm places
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  SPEAKER_00: in a different way.
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  It can really warm places that have found it hard to be warmed
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  by the summer sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can go into a deeper, deeper place.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get out there into this nature that loves us.
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  uh i'm doing some storytelling next thursday thursday at the
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  goddess house at seven
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  o'clock for a half seven start with the amazing sophie
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  pullinger she's a sound
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  healer so she's going to bring gongs and chimes and crystal
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  bowls and the first
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  SPEAKER_00: half will be a story journey it'll be a story with music
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  SPEAKER_00: And the second half, we'll do a journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll do a kind of real deep winter sort of sound led journey with words.
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  I mean,
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  if you're thinking,
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  I don't know what any of that means,
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  come along.
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  SPEAKER_00: Definitely come along and find out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm doing a wassail the week after.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is at the New Shoe Museum in Streets.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a wassail,
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  SPEAKER_00: for those of you that aren't from Somerset or don't know,
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  SPEAKER_00: is a gentle,
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  SPEAKER_00: charming,
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  SPEAKER_00: celebration,
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  SPEAKER_00: awakening,
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  SPEAKER_00: blessing on the apple trees.
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  It's an ancient tradition where people would gather around the
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  apple trees and do
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  all kinds of different things to celebrate their lives and to
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  ask for a good harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's going to be going on there.
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  And all this sort of movement to being outside is making me
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  think about the retreat
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  SPEAKER_00: that I'm running at the end of February at the Chalice Well Gardens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you been to the Chalicewell Gardens in Glastonbury?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's where the red spring,
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  where the red water runs from the Tor down and it's been kept
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  in a very pure and
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  SPEAKER_00: sacred way.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really protected there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I ran a group there last year, a residency for three nights.
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  And the joy of being in the retreat house in the Chalicewell
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  Gardens is that you
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  SPEAKER_00: can have the gardens to yourself at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we created ritual and ceremony and rites of passage together.
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  in those gardens at night and I really felt like people have
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  been doing that for
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  for a long long long time I really felt part of uh kind of
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  sacred pilgrims holy
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  pilgrims that come to Glastonbury to do that and we're going to
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  use the story of
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  Tatterhood to kind of open up the doors and Tatterhood's a
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  really wild story so I
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  feel like there's going to be something about integrating our
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  wild or opening up to
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  SPEAKER_00: our wild
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  we'll see anyway I've got four places left so if you're up for
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  it um get in touch
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  SPEAKER_00: with me I would love to have you there
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh,
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  SPEAKER_00: thanks to Jeff and Andrea and Steph,
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  who were the first people that got in touch to say that the
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  recording was shonky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really, really grateful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, just lovely to know who's listening, when you're listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're listening, send me a message.
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  If you've got anything to say,
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  any comment or advice or support or criticism.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you think,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh,
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  SPEAKER_00: she sounds like she needs a coffee or a dandelion coffee,
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  SPEAKER_00: obviously,
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  SPEAKER_00: because I've stopped the caffeine malarkey,
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  SPEAKER_00: then you can go onto my Substack page,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is probably Mooney's mythic podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll have to check.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can donate something there to support my thrival in this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear you next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really,
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  really hope you get out there and feel the wind on your cheeks
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  and that you're not
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  SPEAKER_00: too cold and that you're never too far from a friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots of love.