I always over and over again became a flute and my plan for what I was going to do that

was so slick and cool or whatever was always surrendered in grief, in praise, in ecstasy

to this thing coming through.

Hello beloved listeners, this is Adri Marie Brown, writer of stories and songs, emergent

strategist and pleasure activist living in the land of the Shakuri, Skarure, Tuscarora,

Lombi and Pinot peoples, and this is how to survive the end of the world, our podcast

about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity.

When I say our, of course, I'm including my co-host sister Autumn, who is currently

on sabbatical, in her absence, and in the spirit of my book Fables and Spells which came

at last fall, I'm going full witch this season and having conversations with my favorite

witches.

And I'll also read you little bits and pieces from the book as we go.

What I mean by witch is all people who work with the elements of the natural world, including

our human nature to generate more possibilities.

Witching is engaging the essential nature of the world through magic with magic and

with supernatural intentions.

So names for what I'm including in which work are shamanism, sorcery, healing, herbalism,

midwifery and doula labor, root work, conjuring, ritual, spell casting, astrology and divination,

sound baths, ultra building, song channeling, building a direct relationship with the realm

of the spirit, the holy and the ethereal.

Sounds like fun.

So our guest today, my guest today, I'm super excited to have on here because she's someone

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