Erosion: A Very Frosty Christmas (Book 6, Chapter 16)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
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🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Erosion in chapter sixteen of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week we are joined by writer and mentor Terry Tempest Williams, who shares an opening story about the landscape of Utah. Casper and Vanessa discuss Molly’s tireless work for her family, the way Harry stands up to Scrimgeour, and how Vanessa came to love musicals. Throughout the episode we consider the question: how do we stay open to change without degrading sense of self?
Thanks to Paulinie Marie Dias for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter seventeen, A Sluggish Memory, live from Washington D.C., through the theme of Attention.
Don’t forget to check out Terry’s new book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Vanessa here. I wanted to let you know about a little class that I'm running. |
| 0:05.5 | It is just going to be me and we are just going to be doing sacred reading practices on Sunday nights |
| 0:11.3 | with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. We are going to meet for six weeks this summer on Sunday |
| 0:17.0 | evenings. We're going to enjoy the heat and the sun and the light and each other's company and |
| 0:24.0 | each class we're going to do one or two sacred reading practices and it's really just about |
| 0:28.1 | community and discipline and believing that the sacred reading practices can change us and do |
| 0:34.7 | magical work on us. And we're going to work our way through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone |
| 0:40.4 | over six weeks together just through Sparklitz. I hope you can join me. It's a really affordable class |
| 0:46.8 | and I'm imagining it just as lovely and I know that it will be even lovely with your presence. |
| 0:52.5 | Find out more at notsorryworks.com |
| 0:58.1 | Chapter 16 |
| 1:03.3 | Chapter 16 |
| 1:04.4 | A very frosty Christmas. So Snape was offering to help him. He was definitely offering to help him. |
| 1:11.9 | If you ask that once more said Harry, I'm going to stick this sprout. I'm only checking, |
| 1:16.3 | said Ron. They were standing alone at the boroughs kitchen sink, peeling amounts. I'm Casper Taukail |
| 1:22.2 | and I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Harry Potter and the sacred text. |
| 1:27.5 | So my friend Casper's favorite movie you've got male was set on the upper west side of the |
| 1:34.0 | island of Manhattan, which is also where our Manhattan based group is. I love that movie so much. |
| 1:40.5 | And yes, indeed our local Manhattan group Harry Potter and Hot Coffee which is run by Craig Budzinski |
| 1:46.5 | meets in Manhattan. So if you're living in that island formerly known as New Amsterdam, you should |
| 1:51.6 | join them as everyone should if they're interested in meeting a local group. You can find their |
| 1:56.4 | details and everyone else's at harrypottersacrotext.com forward slash groups. |
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