Grimm's "The Seven Ravens:" Sacrifice for Family
A father had seven sons, but no daughters, and wished for and finally got one. His sons went to get water for the Christening, but dropped the bucket into it. They did not know what to do, so they s...
2 Maalis 29min
The Empty, Ugly Palace (Clip)
When you've got your basic needs met, like the father does when he takes shelter in Beast's castle, one looks for transcendence, including beauty. This is another story of the emptiness of the pala...
27 Helmi 8min
"Beauty and the Beast:" The Need for Beauty
A rich merchant with three sons and three daughters– the eldest daughters hold out on marriage to a Duke or Earl, but the youngest, aptly-named Beauty, does so to stay with her father a few more years...
19 Helmi 1h 7min
Finally Gaining Sight (Clip)
Hans, beset from childhood with violence from his parents, finally makes it in life, and is to be the king of his wife’s town. However, the people riot when the learn he is blind, and he and the prin...
17 Helmi 2min
A Fairy Tale of A Good but Endangered Boy
VonSchönwerth’s “The Knight’s Sash” is a story about an intrepid son without a father, who continually does his duty, eventually wins love and devotion. We summarize and then discuss the story. A hun...
9 Helmi 1h 8min
Acceptance of Folly & Death
LL and I do a short breathing meditation, then a zoom out contemplation. After checking in about recent challenges, we discuss Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Book 12, Entry 36, the last in the book, ...
4 Helmi 57min
The Bearskin and Vulnerability (Clip)
The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest full of thieves and conceals his skin with a bearskin, and passes through unmolested.The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest, full of thieves, and c...
1 Helmi 7min
"The Gold Children," by the Brothers Grimm
A fisherman catches a gold fish, which makes a deal with him: he’ll have a nice big house if he lets the fish go, on the condition he tell no one how he got the house. The man objects: and what’ll I ...
21 Tammi 47min
