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The Arrogant Pride of Marriage
But it was his patience, strength, and wit that held me steady. When it comes to the spirit spouse expectations, he has never faltered there. Not even when he’s wanted to tear his hair out at me. And here’s where my own arrogance comes back into the story, because it wasn’t only fear or misinformation that kept me there. It was also me, and how that arrogance shaped my approach to this very marriage.
Gallows Humor and the Pawwaw Way
But the biocentric part of me says that humans are also not the center of the universe. It means understanding that the spirits, the land, the animals, and the Wyrd all have their own sovereign agency. You respect their domains. You don’t walk into someone else’s hall and demand they cater to you—like I learned the hard way with Bragi. You respect the ecosystem.
After the Bard Returns
The old tales, especially with Ireland, talk a little bit about what happens to the bard that makes it back. They’re filled with longing for the green place. Their music is never the same – either it becomes hauntingly gorgeous but unbearably sad, or they can only speak the truth so that their songs become lays of prophecy. Touch the earth, they may age but a hundred years. They’re never the same again, and so for all they walk among former friends, family and lovers they’re still apart inside. Forever.