We're excited to share another beautiful guest episode with you today.
In this piece, originally broadcast in 2 parts on The Wind (one of our favourite podcasts), producer Eleanor Qull is taking us on a pilgrimage in honour of, and in tribute to that most collective monarch — the monarch butterfly. Through those lepidopteran migrants, it’s a story of scale, agency, and spiritual offering in a changing world.
Eleanor cooked up a special ~1 hour version just for us. It's spacious, equal parts silly and deadpan, with a big scoop of mono no aware.
If you’d like to see pictures of the pilgrimage offerings from each stop, you can find them at thewind.org/episodes/the-merry-monarchs, along with complete list of citations, plus the original unabridged 2-part version — where the tour makes an additional stop (in space).
This guest episode features the voices of Eleanor Qull, Fil Corbitt, Laurie Leonard, Chip Taylor, and Storai Stanizai
With music by Theo Rasmussen, Cory McAbee, and Eleanor Qull
Produced by Eleanor Qull and mastered by Mendel Skulski.