#5: Chrysalis
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In This Episode of The Say The Word Podcast…
We’re talking about:
my bad book habits
an excerpt from Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide To Getting Lost
how a butterfly’s chrysalis is a more apt emblem of transformation than I once believed
As promised…my copy of this book:
Here’s where the action’s happening in today’s episode:
[00:46] - welcome
[01:17]- what happens to my books
[02:44] - the excerpt from A Field Guide to Getting Lost
[06:48] - the imagery of caterpillar to butterfly and why it never worked for me
[08:30] - why her word choice is so powerful
[10:33] - when change can mean both loss and gain
[11:47] - the role of grief
[12:51] - its bloody business
[13:42] - emergence
[16:02] - letting go
[17:09] - when we’re stuck
[18:29] - reaching for help
[19:34] - the stages of instar
[ 21:02] - the quiet changes
[24:28] - Christine T.’s quote from The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
[25:21] - what’s coming up next week
You can find your copy of Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide To Getting Lost HERE, and all the books mentioned here on the podcast in my curated Bookshop list here.
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