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Welcome to the Story Paths newsletter and podcast, a story elements edition, where we explore the ingredients of stories so that you may better see them and tell them.
We’re exploring journeys now.
In the last issue we looked at four journeys made by our creaturely kin, namely: the Queen’s Knight (ant), the Half-wild Wanderer (cat), the Intergenerational sky pilgrimage (monarch butterfly), and the Desert Matriarch (elephant).
Now let us continue, going from small to large.
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Prompts
The Hungry Mother (gray whale)
Consider a human journey inspired by this journey of the whale.
There are really two journeys.
One, to a sparse sanctuary. The other, back into abundance.
In the second, she is responsible for another, far more vulnerable, being.
What human journeys come to you, that parallel hers?
The Underwater Surfer (sea turtle)
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