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Mar 28, 2026 19 min

209 Desire Paths

from Cast On Hosted by Brenda Dayne

An Eye for an Eye - would the animals we eat, eat us? Impossible Hats. Box Hill Picnic, from Jane Austen’s Emma. Dangerous Questions, where the danger is yours, not your opponent’s. This is what insomniacs get up to at 3am while you are sleeping. Kent Berridge coined the term incentive salience. When dopamine runs hot, everything arrives pre-lit with significance. The creativity wasn’t a symptom - it was genuine creative product on the “this matters” signal. A desire path is a trail worn into the landscape by human feet. Not planned. Just walked so many times it becomes permanent. Some of mine are still here. Also: the duck question has a better answer than you think. And the horses are not going to like it. Music: Tony Anderson, One Perfect Sunset; Waveshaper, Our Time (Instrumental) If you’d like to help support the podcast, you can do so via Ko-fi or Patreon, or by spreading the word to a fellow knitter. Get full access to Brenda Dayne at brendadayne.substack.com/subscribe

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