The Slow River - A Story for the Questions That Don’t Have a Shape Yet

The Slow River - A Story for the Questions That Don’t Have a Shape Yet

Author: Erik Ireland June 7, 2026 Duration: 36:34

A slow, quiet story about sitting with not-knowing until it gets a little easier to carry. Rue the otter has something on his mind and goes to the river, where Amos the beaver is already at work, and the morning is doing what mornings do.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

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Podcast Episodes
The Even Middle - Part Two: The Ridge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:18
Two girls from opposite sides of an old boundary follow the light from the night before to the top of a ridge, not knowing what, or who, they'll find there.You can get my new book, Awaken Your Myth, at https://awakenyour…
The Even Middle - Part One: The Vigil [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:49
A girl spends her coming-of-age night alone in the forest, keeping an old vigil her people have kept for generations, until something unexpected catches her eye across the dark. You can get my new book, Awaken Your Myth,…
The Chrysalis - The Story of the Transformation of a Monarch [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:21
Before a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it has to disappear completely first. You can get my new book, Awaken Your Myth, at https://awakenyourmyth.com/book/. Please leave a review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com…
The Quiet Cove - Two Porpoises and an Afternoon with Nowhere to Be [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:47
The best hunter in her family rarely stops moving. Then, for one golden afternoon, she does. You can get my new book, Awaken Your Myth, at https://awakenyourmyth.com/book/. Please leave a review on Amazon here: https://w…
Tenzin's Dam - A Story About What Outlives Your Own Two Paws [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:33
An old beaver who built the biggest dam in Canada finds a new way to be useful once his teeth can no longer do the work. You can get my new book, Awaken Your Myth, at https://awakenyourmyth.com/book/. Please leave a revi…
Larkspur Cove - A Story of Seeing What Others Don’t [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:02
A painfully honest young man arrives in a small coastal town and befriends the one person everyone else has agreed not to see. You can get my new book, Awaken Your Myth, at https://awakenyourmyth.com/book/. Please leave…
The Mill in the Hollow - A Tale of Finding Shelter in Each Other [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:59
A quiet bedtime story about four unlikely companions who build a home together by learning to lean on each other. Follow a horse, a goat, a goose, and a fox as an early winter carries them out of a familiar valley, over…
Fenn and the Long Way Home - A Journey to the Sea and Back [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:21
A gentle bedtime story about growing, letting go, and finding the way home again. Follow Fenn, a young rainbow trout born in a quiet Northern California creek, as instinct and season carry them from the gravel where they…