You Are Flamingo Kin - "Pink Feathers And Thick Skin"

What this episode covers

Today we explore our kinship with a creature of colour and heat, who inspired ancient myth-makers, 19th century authors, and cult film directors alike - the pink flamingo. But beyond its appearances in our human stories throughout time and place, more inspirational than the mythology is the complex and persistent life of the flamingo bird itself. In her poem “How the Mountains drip with Sunset” Emily Dicksinson asked: Have I the lip of the Flamingo That I dare to tell? So let’s gather here in this flamingo flock today, and I’ll use my flamingo lips, and dare to tell you that we are kin. Let’s conquer a cruel landscape together, by bringing colour, heat, dance and joy to inhospitable places. Because Flamingos exist and thrive in some of the harshest environments that our Earth has to offer. And if they can do it, so can we. www.missingwitches.com/ep-259-you-are-flamingo-kin-pink-feathers-and-thick-skin