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Becoming a Ruin: Decomposing and Regrowing the Mythic with Sophie Strand

The Emerald

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The Oak's Exploded Self

The very place that is cut down re grows to m a forest of tuning forks. The oaks exploded self is a journey that incapsilates the mythic embodied journey. Sacrifice and resurrection are so central to each of our journeys, but resurrection isn't an abstract principle. In confessions of a compost heap, sophy writes, if i feel myself like the compost heap beginning to melt, it means that i also melting into another story,. Let me dance between ripe and rot. I don't know what act in the play comes next, but i know what my prayer is. Make me bigger than an eye. Make me good soil.

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