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Mary Porter Kerns's avatar

I just returned from Florida, and I always wonder/grapple/ponder with body, heart and soul too I think about these abrupt changes in place/time/climate… thanks for the invitation to ponder them mythologically. ❤️

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Marisa Goudy's avatar

You're so very welcome, dear Mary! It's been an interesting moment, feeling grateful for the journey and yet also giving my permission to be with the utter weirdness of it all. And welcome home! Your gardens must be rejoicing to have you back in this early spring moment.

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Amano's avatar

Wow I absolutely love this story. I have done so much travel in the past 8 years and I haven't found the best words to ponder the absurd and magic of it all. Thank you for this x

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Marisa Goudy's avatar

I'm so glad to know this resonates, dear Amano. I know you know this sense of being of two places (at least?) deep in your bones.

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Stacey Couch's avatar

I love the innocent delight of your 101y.o. grandpa. A reminder that even if we've traveled the worlds (both inner and outer) we will never see it all. I think about the anchor too, and how at times we do need to anchor our floating spirit in matters of the world. For me delighting in the mundane is a healthy way of tethering my spirit and living more embodied.

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Marisa Goudy's avatar

Oh, Stacey, thank you for bringing the anchor into the conversation. It seems especially synchronistic as my grandfather was a Naval academy grad (who never particularly liked the ocean).

Now you have me thinking of how we need the anchor and the roots, but how, like the airship visitors, we sometimes anchor into the wrong space/wrong tradition - and it takes an act of magic or compassionate community to free us to go on our own path.

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Pearl Gregor's avatar

The Great Airship of Ancient Air Space! Such a delightful story of mythic imagination grounded in the travels of the current time!! Thanks for the history together with yesterday!!

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Marisa Goudy's avatar

Oh, Pearl, all your gorgeous exclamation points have me longing to write more stories of The Great Airship of Ancient Air Space. Who were those visitors and what magic did their world hold if they drowned in our own sweet element of air?

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Kara Simons | Joyful Resonance's avatar

Marisa, thank you for this wonder wander. I love how you connected the dots.

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Marisa Goudy's avatar

Thank you, dear Kara!

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