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Jan 2, 2023Liked by Made in Cosmos ✨

I needed to hear this. Thanks

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Great piece! My favorite "normie" is Odysseus. He travelled the known world and fought fierce battles, survived feuds with a noble back and cool head,

and at the end he returned to Ithaca where his noble and faithful wife awaited.

It really is the most beautiful tale.

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Jan 3, 2023Liked by Made in Cosmos ✨

There is something to say about the fact that the grandmothers hero’s journey IS to become a grandmother. And you’re right in the middle of it. (:

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Jan 2, 2023Liked by Made in Cosmos ✨

I like ‘normie’ but I don’t buy it with the ‘ordinary normie’. I think you can be wise normie, normie who secretly has heron marked sword(like Rand Al Thor’s stepfather), normie who can sing magic songs that harmonise the household proper, alchemist normie, noble normie

Here’s another very good argument on the very similar theme - nobility https://vividness.live/nobility

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Jan 2, 2023Liked by Made in Cosmos ✨

Amazing Maria. 👏🏼

I underwrite this 100%, it’s been exactly my reasoning for starting my substack almost a year ago.

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This is why it is a shame that the Scouring the Shire was not adapted into the Lotr movies, leaving the most famous archetypal hero's journey in pop culture without the necessary return to the village.

The journey isn't over when you return, you still need to fight tooth and nail, but the reward of integrating your wisdom into your community will be manifold.

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Something Tolkien realized that follow-up acts have forgotten.

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The funny thing is that I thought I became uninteresting on Twitter after I got married and didn't have "interesting insights" to share anymore that hadn't already been said by tons of people. But your post made me rethink that... in many ways marriage is a radical decision, and full of adventure and I could still share what I wish my younger self would have liked to know

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