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The Two Frogs and the Hill Between

12 min · Japan · Wisdom · A gentle smile

Two frogs from two distant towns climb the same green hill to see the wider world, and discover, with gentle humor, that the eyes we look through decide what we find. A quiet parable about assumptions loosening, and about the peace of admitting how little we can see from where we stand.

Retold from Japanese Fairy World, by William Elliot Griffis.

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Also in the podcast episode The Ember and the Wheel of Fire.