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The Stag Who Learned to Thank His Legs

13 min · The ancient world · Wisdom · A gentle smile

In a mist-hung forest clearing, a stag who adores his own splendid antlers and dismisses his four plain legs is gently taught, by a still pool, a passing lion, and a patient thicket of blackthorn, that the quiet and unadmired parts of us are the very things that carry us home.

Retold from Aesop's Fables, translated by V. S. Vernon Jones.

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Story 5 of The Garden Gate, starting at 53:46.