Would you wander with us? Part storytelling, part nature exploration, Would You Wander is a pick-your-own-path podcast which integrates knowledge-sharing, story-telling, and natural discovery. So take a wander with us - and discover the ground living beneath your feet, the story around the corner, the fruit tree you never noticed before, and the heartbeat nature shares with all of us. Whether you’re looking for discovery or a story, you've come to the right place: exactly where you are. Created in amiskwaciwâskahikan on Treaty 6 territory.
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episode 1: Wander 1: Lito the Rusalka
Content warning: implied suicide, language, sadness, pandemic hysteria.
Sofia explores the cycle of the seasons, the Death of Spring, or “Vesna” and the Birth of Summer “Lito”. Endings met with Beginnings. Loss met with Love. This story is fueled by her Ukrainian roots, the hysteria of the pandemic, and using nature to cope. “Lito the Rusalka” takes us through emptiness, confronting queerness, and the natural unknown, by using a Ukrainian cautionary tale as the catalyst. Sofia confronts her own childhood fears of not knowing what lies beneath the surface of the water, and her adulthood fears of losing every swimmable lake due to the carelessness of our species, the invasiveness of other species, and unknown species’ yet to come. She hopes you find endings and beginnings in this pandemic, and that you always find the water, whatever that means to you!
00:36 Part 1: Welcome, Bitaemo
01:39 Part 2: Vesna’s End, Lito’s Beginning
03:58 Part 3: Beware of the water
05:52 Part 4: Walking to where, exactly?
07:16 Part 5: Relief
This episode was created and recorded by Sofia Lukie in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory.
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Edited by Sam Jeffery in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory.
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