I love this episode. It felt like the best one yet. The picture is the picture of by far my favourite book on earth.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word
Interesting that the spontaneous Dictionary Hukamnama in this episode opened to a spread beginning with words that began with the letters "pl". PL are the initials for Patrick Lane. Yesterday's episode was devoted, in great part, to Patrick Lane. One never knows what the energy of a Hukamnama fully means.
This was the discarded writing I referenced in the couchcast:
"The Old Sage began to answer and then could not and then closed his eyes. Sittting on the giant, 400-year-old log that had been there so long it had grass growing out of its back, the Old Sage experienced something like an electric current throbbing into him from the bark of Meredith the Mermaid. It coursed through his buttocks and palms. Several sharp breaths came out his nose, then he went silent.
He breathed out sharply again.
“I come here to extinguish the bad things in myself,” he said.
Solitary Confinement in the Digital Age.