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The Girl Who Watched the Mountains

12 min · Korea · Wonder · Comfort

In a quiet valley where plum trees blossom while snow still lies on the peaks, a girl who longs for distant places is visited on a spring wind by a robed lady of the sky, who shows her a realm of drifting cloud and silver rivers, and then returns her, gently, to her own small house, where she discovers that the wonder she travelled to find was already waiting in the ordinary things of her life.

Retold from Korean Fairy Tales, by William Elliot Griffis.

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Also in the podcast episode The Moonlit Meadow and the Patient Hill.