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Today, May 13, 2021, would have been my dad's 88th birthday. Somehow, no one knows how, he got COVID right before Christmas and died on December 30th, after a brief time in the hospital.

I'm still trying to absorb the sudden surprise of it and the void created by his passing. It's as if a star, a guiding light, has fallen from the sky.

Last fall, Dad and I had a conversation about leaps of faith, and how the willingness to take the right risks shapes your life. In a podcast that I had recorded for you several weeks earlier, I explored this theme with the help of a story called "Jumping Mouse."

The questions that we considered in light of that story, about the need to take a leap of faith, and about the search for the courage and commitment to be true to yourself, precipitated my conversation with Dad. And they're still central to our shared moment. There is so much to grieve and to anticipate. This is a time for visions and for making choices.

I'm going to take time away from work to celebrate my Dad today. What you'll hear next is the unedited episode from August 2020, about Jumping Mouse.

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be," writes May Sarton. Here's to finding the courage to make those leaps of faith.

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."~ Joseph Campbell

The image is my collage, The Daily Leap

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from Myth Matters Season 3, released January 1, 2021

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Dr. Catherine Svehla Fort Collins, Colorado

Storyteller, scholar, artist, & desert activist with a PhD in mythology & depth psychology.

Myths & stories contain the wisdom of the human race. I want to know how we can keep the mystery in life alive? How can myths connect us to a larger sphere of being & meaning?

Many of these tracks are Myth in the Mojave programs that first aired online on Radio Free Joshua Tree.

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