A Story Waiting to Be Untangled: Our Lady, Undoer of Knots | S5 Ep 8

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Our Story

Sophie and Wolfgang’s marriage was in trouble. Seeing as it was 1612 in Augsburg, they didn’t go to couple’s therapy, they went to a Jesuit priest who had a reputation for working miracles. What he had was a direct line of communication with Our Lady, the Undoer of Knots.

In this solo episode, Marisa talks about the experience of a story, and characters who will not reveal their secrets.

She also discusses how we manufacture our own “creative wastelands” and how they seem almost inevitable in a culture that demands that artists and writers continue to produce to claim and retain an audience.

As writers, as artists, as creative entrepreneurs, we often end up in the wasteland when we try to do it all alone, and that is why Marisa founded her online writing community in 2018.

The Writers’ Knot is a global community of storytellers, myth lovers, memoirists, novelists, poets, and bloggers.

The next program begins on August 1 with a three hour virtual retreat called HARVEST. During this event, the group will explore the mythology of the Irish goddess Tailtiu and Lughnasa, the first harvest of the Celtic year.

You can register to attend HARVEST: the Lughnasa Writers’ Retreat (August 1, 2 - 5 PM ET): https://www.marisagoudy.com/lughnasa-writers-retreat

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Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com

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