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S02E07 | The Spring I Returned to Myself
Twenty-six years after a promise made lightly in a botanical garden, a woman imagines returning, not to change the past, but to understand it.
In this episode, Liora revisits a single season from her twenties and the man she never quite left behind. What unfolds is not a love story, but a meditation on timing, tenderness, and the quiet ways certain people shape us simply by how they move through the world. Set between an English kitchen and an Italian garden in early spring, this story explores missed signals, imagined reunions, and the mercy of hindsight.
After the story, Andrea speaks with Liora about why she chose to imagine this meeting, what it gave her emotionally, and how some “what ifs” don’t need answers... only attention.
A gentle, reflective episode about growing older, returning to oneself, and learning that not all unfinished things are meant to be completed.
If this story found you, linger for a moment.
Follow the show, share it with someone who might need a gentler way back to themselves, and if there’s a question you’ve been carrying quietly, a conversation that never quite happened... you’re welcome to send it to me.
Some stories don’t ask to be finished.
They just want a place to land.
🎼 Music Credit
Spring - Movement III: Allegro pastorale
from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Live, unedited performance
Recorded at Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita State University
John Harrison - Violin
Robert Turizziani - Conductor
The Wichita State University Chamber Players
https://johnharrison.cc
Permission for publication by: John Harrison
License: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
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By Andrea Appelwick | If I Could Say One More ThingTwenty-six years after a promise made lightly in a botanical garden, a woman imagines returning, not to change the past, but to understand it.
In this episode, Liora revisits a single season from her twenties and the man she never quite left behind. What unfolds is not a love story, but a meditation on timing, tenderness, and the quiet ways certain people shape us simply by how they move through the world. Set between an English kitchen and an Italian garden in early spring, this story explores missed signals, imagined reunions, and the mercy of hindsight.
After the story, Andrea speaks with Liora about why she chose to imagine this meeting, what it gave her emotionally, and how some “what ifs” don’t need answers... only attention.
A gentle, reflective episode about growing older, returning to oneself, and learning that not all unfinished things are meant to be completed.
If this story found you, linger for a moment.
Follow the show, share it with someone who might need a gentler way back to themselves, and if there’s a question you’ve been carrying quietly, a conversation that never quite happened... you’re welcome to send it to me.
Some stories don’t ask to be finished.
They just want a place to land.
🎼 Music Credit
Spring - Movement III: Allegro pastorale
from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Live, unedited performance
Recorded at Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita State University
John Harrison - Violin
Robert Turizziani - Conductor
The Wichita State University Chamber Players
https://johnharrison.cc
Permission for publication by: John Harrison
License: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0