What if myths are places where the earth dreams through us? Vietnam’s Dragon and Phoenix are each creatures embodying a combination of earthly and aquatic qualities that echo the ancient mangroves, wetlands and estuaries that make up the coastal landscape from which these mythic beings emerge. In this courtship of human imagination and the earthly world, the land dreams herself into creaturely form, hatching more of herself into being in this marriage-place of worlds, a place of encounter and reciprocal becoming. What becomes possible when we open ourselves to the earth’s wild intelligence, allowing its ways of becoming to move through and shape the way we make sense of our present day stories and our lives?
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