Missing Witches - April 11, 2022


You Are Goose Kin Meditation

Topics
geese kin teamwork
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Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

85.65

Word count

966

Sentence count

87

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

22

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Hate speech

17

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Transcript

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00:00:00.120 The Missing Witches podcast is entirely listener-funded.
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00:00:12.800 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:19.380 You must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:30.000 The geese are returning to their summer homes, the lake next door and northward, creating
00:00:52.180 When great air shows in the sky, flying V's above my head as they pass, arrows pointing.
00:01:01.780 Onward, onward, onward, shapes of shadows like weather.
00:01:11.060 It's a goosey day today.
00:01:17.800 And if I'm honest, sometimes the chorus of honks is a bit too much.
00:01:26.040 A bit too close to the sound of aggressive driving.
00:01:30.120 Traffic jams I came to the woods to escape.
00:01:33.400 But this honk is different.
00:01:39.600 Canada geese honk when they fly as a way of keeping the flock together.
00:01:47.260 It's not watch out or out of my way, it's we are here.
00:01:55.880 We are here.
00:01:58.920 We are here.
00:02:02.140 We got this.
00:02:04.680 We got this.
00:02:07.080 We got this.
00:02:09.240 Keep going.
00:02:11.160 Keep going.
00:02:13.160 Keep going.
00:02:14.160 Joni Mitchell sang
00:02:20.140 See the geese in chevron fly
00:02:25.280 Flapping and racing on before the snow
00:02:31.820 They've got the urge for going
00:02:37.300 And they've got wings so they can go
00:02:42.800 Not all geese migrate, but those that do like to return to the place they were born.
00:03:02.300 They remember.
00:03:03.220 with beaks at once both chunky and sleek
00:03:07.980 they face the future, the journey
00:03:10.880 and speak
00:03:13.360 geese honk their ancient memories of home when they fly
00:03:19.540 as a way of keeping the flock together
00:03:23.640 and we look to our goose kin
00:03:27.420 for lessons and teamwork
00:03:29.520 they fly in v formations to reduce the strain of travel for all of them each bird each flap of
00:03:43.120 wings creating lift for their fellow birds allowing them to fly further with less effort
00:03:50.020 We are goose kin. Together, we are aerodynamic. When we lift each other up, we all fly farther. Easier.
00:04:04.300 geese take turns in leadership roles every bird in every flock gets a chance to be that front
00:04:13.980 bird that pointed tip of the arrow and when the leader gets tired they fall back knowing another
00:04:23.100 teammate is ready to take the position and if one goose is very very tired or injured or sick
00:04:31.780 two more will stay behind until their friend is ready to fly again. 0.99
00:04:38.320 Though generally quite sociable, geese are territorial as fuck when they have something 0.99
00:04:44.700 they want to protect. They're young. They're nest. They're dreams. They're goals. And you, 0.99
00:04:55.900 2. Your boundaries are your birthright.
00:05:02.160 What Christina Cleveland calls the holy no.
00:05:07.360 Geese are non-singing birds. They do not sing. They shout.
00:05:13.480 The Canada Goose has an intricate system of vocal communication, and their repertoire includes 13 different calls for adults.
00:05:21.420 The types of call include honking, hucka, snore, and cackle.
00:05:28.560 Honking, hucka, snore, and cackle, and sometimes they hiss.
00:05:36.380 Geese, said Kevin McGowan, an ornithologist at Cornell University,
00:05:41.900 are not something to be trifled with.
00:05:45.560 And neither are you. 0.99
00:05:47.960 You are goose kin. 0.72
00:05:50.540 Honking, hucka, snore, and cackle. 1.00
00:05:55.580 Witches cackle, too.
00:05:59.360 Multiple families of geese join together to form larger groups called gaggles. 0.97
00:06:05.980 Geese look out for each other.
00:06:08.260 And so do we.
00:06:09.260 We are goose kin.
00:06:12.540 We are gaggle.
00:06:15.820 Together, gaggles form armies of mutual aid.
00:06:20.520 This time last year, my partner and I stood in the grass,
00:06:24.220 marveling as hundreds of Canada geese cast great black silhouettes,
00:06:29.440 their honking shouts drowning out the sound of even our thoughts. 0.99
00:06:35.640 Then, like artillery fire, they unleashed a hailstorm of shit that sent us running for cover. 0.99
00:06:43.520 My partner took the most damage, 0.99
00:06:46.220 gagging at the sight of his arms covered in streaks of grey-green goose-poop slime,
00:06:52.260 while I screamed with laughter, honking, hucka, snore, and cackle.
00:07:03.540 Once my partner was working on the roof when a flock passed over so close he could almost touch their dinosaur-feathered wings.
00:07:13.820 describing the smell as that of sewage. 0.99
00:07:20.420 We are goose kin, and together we find the courage to let our shit go. 0.99
00:07:31.500 Collectively drop whatever is weighing us down. 0.97
00:07:34.460 In teams, families, in gaggles and covens, we find our goose kin whose communal energy feeds us.
00:07:44.460 And the rest? We let that shit go as we fly. 1.00
00:07:52.920 In Wild Geese, poet Mary Oliver wrote, 1.00
00:07:57.760 You do not have to be good.
00:08:00.520 You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
00:08:05.980 You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
00:08:13.580 Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
00:08:18.840 Meanwhile, the world goes on.
00:08:21.480 Meanwhile, the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,
00:08:27.820 over the prairies and the deep trees the mountains and the rivers meanwhile the wild geese high in
00:08:38.200 the clean blue air are heading home again whoever you are no matter how lonely the world offers
00:08:48.820 itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting, over and
00:08:58.000 over, announcing your place in the family of things.
00:09:10.020 You are goose kin. 0.88
00:09:14.160 Keep going.
00:09:16.700 You've got wings. 0.97
00:09:18.820 So you can go, honking, hucka, snore, and cackle, witch cackle. 0.95
00:09:25.960 You are goose kin. 0.78
00:09:29.880 The work is hard. 0.97
00:09:31.720 You will sweat.
00:09:33.320 You will stink. 1.00
00:09:35.380 You will fall behind, but you will let that shit go. 1.00
00:09:42.420 As you join together with other goose witches, 1.00
00:09:45.940 inquire honk your being for the world to hear, 0.74
00:09:48.820 In great chorus together, today we do not sing, we shout, honking, hucka, snore, and cackle.
00:10:00.160 We are goose kin.
00:10:02.780 We've got wings.
00:10:04.960 We are here.
00:10:06.900 We are not to be trifled with.
00:10:09.760 We are gaggle.
00:10:11.880 We got this. 1.00
00:10:14.720 Let that shit go. 1.00
00:10:16.700 Keep going 1.00
00:10:19.060 Honking, hucka, snore, and cackle 1.00
00:10:25.100 You are Goose Kin 1.00
00:10:28.260 Announcing your place in the family of things 0.99
00:10:46.700 Thank you.