And so I've always been interested in how things survived and what we can learn from relating back to the stories and the folklore that perhaps was a little bit more relational with land. I'm very interested what drives me is this kinship, this kindred spirit connection between

ourselves and the living earth. Animism drives me. So I'm devoted to helping everyone find their own way in to the love affair. And by the

love affair, I mean the love affair with the earth. And I think the bees and myth are two really good ways in.

Hi friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast, where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth.

Today I'm bringing back guest Ariella Daily.

I first interviewed Ari at the beginning of this

podcast journey, episode 9 entitled Know Thyself weaving Myth and Magic into everyday life.

It was a very loved episode.

A lot of good feedback on that, which I still hear, it still rolls in sometimes. I've been wanting to

catch up with Ari for a while and there's there's a lot to talk about.

If you're interested in the fraud

wrought by the author whose book,

Ari's, Teachers,

based their teachings on, and we'll talk about this at the beginning of the

interview. I'm going to say a few more a few extra words about this after the

interview and there are three Patreon bonuses for this episode. I love love

this conversation I am captivated and in raptured by honey bees and I just the exuberance was

flowing through me wanting to share more and more and as you'll hear as this conversation was winding down I just had

More questions for Ari more like personal questions about how she's making donor-conceived single

motherhood in her 40s while running a business work, and more about her father's death.

She tells me in the first of these three Patreon bonuses,

about the dream she had the night before her dad died, and about how one of his physical ailments

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