Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Are you ever a little tired or suspicious or simply over, highly filtered,

kind of borrowed lifestyles that you see everywhere. Look, it's no secret that I've

been off social media for a while and I do feel like it's opened me up. My ideas, my ability

to form full opinions on my own without thinking what other people are saying about something.

I really do recommend a break,

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Today's fable is called the Vane Jackdor.

I love how this fable was written.

Oh my gosh, once again, two and a half thousand years ago.

And it's still relevant now, far amplified by the age of technology. Here it is, my friends,

the vain jackdor. Jupiter determined it is said to create a sovereign over the birds and made

a proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him,

when he would choose himself the most beautiful among them to be king. So a planet says,

okay, there is going to be a sovereign bird who rules over all other birds. The jackdor,

knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected

the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his

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