Chapter Three: The Clearing

Description: A portal. A reunion. The shortest of days. The longest of nights. The solstice brings with it joy and longing, togetherness and isolation. The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a donation to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA) today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Fill our our listener survey over at fableandfolly.com/survey. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: The Wanderer arrives at a cave... The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a donation to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA) today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Fill our our listener survey over at fableandfolly.com/survey. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website -Twitter -Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: As The Wanderer is loosing hope and patience, he stumbles across a boar with a broken leg. He is face with the choice of staying true to himself, or giving in to his exhaustion. The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a donation to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA) today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Fill our our listener survey over at fableandfolly.com/survey. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: After cutting the forest, The Wanderer is chased through the forest by a hunter, trying to hold close to the Wander while being shot at. Can he find some peace? Or even an escape? The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a donation to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA) today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Fill our our listener survey over at fableandfolly.com/survey. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: Late into a night of wandering, The Wanderer sees Andrew, standing just ahead. But no matter how loudly he calls, he can’t seem to get Andrew to hear. The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a donation to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA) today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Fill our our listener survey over at fableandfolly.com/survey. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: The Wanderer arrives at a clearing, with no way of hearing which way the wander has gone. He moves through the clearing, looking for a way out and something to hold onto to keep him going. The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a contribution to Land is Life today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: While moving through the rain, The Wanderer slips and hurts his ankle. He has to make the choice between using some of his magic song on his own leg to keep going, or to wait and save his magic for whatever state he might find Andrew in. The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website. Make a contribution to PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) today. Give a listen to Signed, Venus an audio fantasy road trip. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: The Wanderer confronts his devil as he tries to get started in the morning. Sometimes it’s easy to catch the wander. Sometimes it's his greatest challenge.  The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website.  Make a contribution to Land is Life today. Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: While sitting around a fire, The Wanderer tells of the three ways of traversing the forest- taking the cuts, or the roads and paths, bushwacking, and the oldest way- Wandering.  The transcript and credits for this episode can be found on our website.  Make a contribution to Land is Life today. Sponsor: Get your newsletter started with Aweber today! www.aweber.com/wander Support: Join our Patreon for early access, bonus features, and to hear your name before each episode. Sign up for our newsletter for a behind the scenes peek into each month’s episode themes. Website - Twitter - Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I think you should know something before we continue. I am not the hero of this story. In fact this story doesn’t have a hero. I'm not going to save anyone here, least of all myself. But I’ve made a deal with the forest. I've agreed to wander; to wander as long as I can, to wander as long as the forest wishes. I don't completely understand what she wants with me, but I wander because it's the only way I have to keep the person I love most safe. I wander because it’s the only way I’ll get him back. It's the least I can do. It’s the only thing I can do. The Wanderer is an original folk tale audio fiction from T.H. Ponders. A member of Fable and Folly Network. Produced by Jordan Stillman. Show Art by V Silverman. Coming May 3, 2021. If you would like to support the show and get early access to ad free, high quality versions of the episodes, consider supporting us on Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices