Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

So we had a blackout in the South Huron on Tuesday and that meant I had to reschedule this week's guest until after Podcast Thursday. So I got to thinking if maybe this is

country speaking why not bring forward the September solo show into the dying dog days of August?

I've done two in one month before and you know needs must this worked out pretty well frankly I hope from a

timing perspective the Q3 course on a magical geography and spirits of place started well essentially a couple of hours ago

depending on when you were listening to this I'm trying to get them to drop simultaneously

and there is some content that had too much backstory to fit into any one of the modules in the course, but at least this is the theory, it does make, I hope for a good

stand-alone show. I wasn't sure where it would fit in the flow of the course. So it's going here instead.

Because here's the thing. A course about magical geography necessarily involves exploring notions of

moving about the earth, right? And as with all things I suppose, but in a particular

Anglo-American context we need to explore

rambling tramping hiking bushwalking whatever you want to call intentionally interacting with the more than human world by foot or on foot and with no other goal

but that right so you can describe it whoever you want depending on where you are in the world

So the philosopher

Patrick Harper calls the late 18th century the time of the invention of

walking. This is the era of collarage and Wordsworth and you know wandering lonely as a cloud and

and those druggies really walked. I mean they could do up to 30 miles a day

which is you know like a Roman Legion.

Coleridge, in fact, first encountered the Wordsworths

on one of his mega walks, and the memory of that first sighting never left Dorothy Wordsworth.

She said she saw Collaridge, leave the path, jump a fence and kind of cut a corner of a field, cut through a corner of the field so as to avoid having to

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