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The world is filled with bewitching people, and you might be one too. Welcome to the podcast,

where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. I'm Pam Grossman,

and this is the Witch Wave.

Hello, and welcome to the Witch Wave. So I've been thinking a lot about place. The magic of the

places we travel to, but also the magic of the spaces we occupy during our day-to-day routines,

and most of us during this last year of quarantine have probably, have hopefully, gone to far

less places than we usually might. Maybe at times that's felt stifling, and you found yourself

with a severe case of wanderlust. I have definitely been crawling the walls in moments

myself. Don't get me wrong. But maybe at other times you've been able to deepen your

relationship with your own neighborhood, your own home. As Franz Kafka famously wrote, quote,

you do not need to leave your room, remain sitting at your table, and listen. Do not even listen,

simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be

unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I've definitely needed to leave my apartment, my room, ecstatic moments, notwithstanding.

But my orbit has certainly gotten much smaller this past year, and that has had its own magic.

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