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The Brothers Who Traded Hands

13 min · Japan · Wisdom · Comfort

On a quiet seaside at dawn, two brothers, one who fishes, one who tends the terraced gardens, trade their work for a season, and learn from the patient old voice of the water that ease is found not in another’s path but in the familiar grain of one’s own hands.

Retold from Japanese Fairy Tales, by Grace James.

Story 4 of Lantern Light, at 42:49.