How did I get here? Stories of travel and passage

Meditative Story

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Mental Health, Society & Culture, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Stories, Health & Fitness, Storytelling, Society And Culture

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The heart of storytelling is a journey, across time and place. In these four short stories, travel to a remote and lonely farm … a village alive with family … an island teeming with unique life … and a city street that suddenly begins to feel like home. In stories from Andrew Bird, Nadia Owusu, David Whyte, and Pico Iyer, linked and contextualized with meditations from Rohan.

Listen to Meditative Story episodes featured in this episode:

Andrew Bird: http://listen.meditativestory.com/AndrewBirdCompilation2

Nadia Owusu: http://listen.meditativestory.com/NadiaOwusuCompilation2

David Whyte: http://listen.meditativestory.com/DavidWhyteCompilation2

Pico Iyer: http://listen.meditativestory.com/PicoIyerCompilation2

Each episode of Meditative Story combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with immersive music and gentle mindfulness prompts. Read the transcript for this story at: www.meditativestory.com

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, Rohan here, your host of Meditative Story.
0:08.0	While we're working on season 4, which is coming very soon, I want to take you back to
0:12.1	a few moments from past seasons that I'd love us to revisit, this time with a bit of
0:16.9	additional context that I'll be providing.
0:20.0	I think it'll deepen the meaning behind these episodes for you, and perhaps help in some
0:24.6	way as we reflect on their themes.
0:28.2	We've put together a particularly excellent episode today, so take a few moments to get
0:32.4	comfortable and settle in with us.
0:37.2	I don't know about you, but the gradual reopening these days has reminded me how much I love
0:42.6	to travel and how much I missed it.
0:46.4	Travel can mean a dozen different things to a dozen different people of course.
0:50.5	Travel can be epic, and it can be the tiniest step into the unfamiliar.
0:55.7	It can be literal, and it can be blesso.
1:00.0	Whatever definition you're working with, there's a journey of some sort to the heart
1:03.0	of it, and journeys are nothing if not stories, stretched out over time and place.
1:10.6	Our first look back is a meditative story from Andrew Bird, the brilliant singing songwriter.
1:16.3	Years ago at the beginning of his career, it wasn't at all clear where he was heading.
1:21.4	So in that moment he flees the safe but creatively stagnating big city, and moves to remote
1:27.0	farmhouse in Western Illinois.
1:29.9	What happens there surely one of the greatest testaments to the creative power of travel?
1:35.0	Listen to episode 36 for the full account.
1:38.2	As a lover of Andrew's music, I personally would be bereft had he not made that trip.
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