"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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 47min
Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths (Clip)
In the fairy tale time logic, the fisherman's son practically becomes a priest after he is born, and after he leaves the house he doesn't see his parents again. But he is not done with the watery bar...
9 Jan 5min
The Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood
“Little Red Cap:” A little girl, beloved by her grandmother and known for her red cap, is sent by her mother to bring her grandmother a meal. Little Cap assures her mother she’ll follow all direction...
2 Jan 35min
