Go to the Verge of Destruction and Bring Back Shmat-Razum
The king’s best hunter shoots a bird, wounding it, and it begs him to not kill it, instructing him to bring it home, put it on a window sill, and strike it. When he does so, it turns into a beautiful...
5 Okt 20252h 50min
The Brothers Grimm’s “The Golden Bird”
The Brothers Grimm’s “The Golden Bird” A king’s garden is robbed of a golden apple, and he sends his three sons, one at a time, to discover the culprit. The first two fall asleep, resulting in two m...
28 Sep 202557min
Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood, Part I
Robin Hood & the Tinker: The Sheriff of Nottingham sends out a warrant for Robin Hood’s arrest. Local men don’t want to take it up, but a Tinker from out of town brags he will serve it. Robin Hood i...
23 Sep 20251h 59min
Authoritarian Regimes Don’t Take in Feedback from Below (Clip)
The lack of taking in feedback of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. With many adherents of these ideologies, anything is justified. We are reflecting on Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood, where the out...
19 Sep 20252min
Jonathan Pageau's "Rapunzel," Summary and Discussion
An old woman lives alone in a small cottage in the woods, with bitterness and her rapunzel cabbages as companions. She prizes the plants, however, attending them relentlessly. Now a newly-married wo...
14 Sep 202554min
Hoarding Your Inner Gold, or Knowing How to Use It: “Spirit in the Bottle” (Clip)
Going into wholeness or connection, on the one hand, or solipsism and individualism, on the other hand. It seems one can find one’s way to solipsism if one does not “return to school,” and patiently ...
12 Sep 20252min
The Brothers Grimm’s “The Golden Goose”
LL and I read and discuss this lovely folktale. A man had three sons, the youngest called Dummling (Simpleton), who was mocked and sneered at. The eldest son wanted to hew wood in the forest, and hi...
8 Sep 202533min
Robin Hood’s Origins, Little John & The Trickster
We summarize Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood’s Prologue, on the green-clad Robbing man’s origins and his meeting, being beat by, and joining forces with Little John. Then we discuss Robin Hood as a proper r...
1 Sep 20251h 45min
