Episodes
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Ep 25: When No One Left
🌲 When No One Left A story for the ones who don’t need to go anywhere just yet 🕯️ Have you ever found a place… where nothing needed you to hurry? Where the ground felt soft enoughto hold you… and the air didn’t ask you to be anything differentthan what you already are? 🌿 Welcome to The Hollow...
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Ep 24: The Tree That Let Something Fall
🌿 The Tree That Let Something Fall A Hollow Tree myth for the ones who notice when something changes… before anyone says it out loud. Have you ever noticed… how some things fall awaybefore anything new appears? Welcome to The Hollow Tree This is a story for the children who feel when something…
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Ep 23: The Button Tree
🌲 The Button Tree A Hollow Tree myth for the ones who lose small things… and find something more. Welcome to The Hollow Tree This is a story for the children who notice when something small goes missing—and feel it more than anyone expects. For the ones who check their pockets twice,who remember...
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Ep 22: The Flower That Opened When It Was Ready
Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the children who sometimes feel a quiet tug inside that says, “Not yet.” Let’s begin. 🍃 Forest Friend Whisper [Chime] “In the meadow beyond the Hollow Tree grows a flower that no one has ever managed to open. Not by pulling. Not by asking loudly....
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Ep 21: The Button That Came Back Warm
🧵 The Button That Came Back Warm A Hollow Tree myth for the ones who notice when small things move. Have you ever lost something small… and felt like it mattered more than it should? Welcome to The Hollow Tree Where strange stories nest and grow… …and sometimes, the smallest thingsshift just...
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Ep 20: The Stone That Knew Its Place
🪨 The Stone That Knew Its Place A Myth for the Children Who Carry the Not-Knowing Sometimes the forest gets loud.Not scary loud. Just… life loud.And when that happens, the stories don’t disappear.They wait and arrive when things settle. Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the…
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Ep 19: The Child Who Borrowed a Different Ending
🌀 The Child Who Borrowed a Different Ending A Hollow Tree myth for the ones who notice when things don’t quite land where they should. Have you ever noticed how sometimes a moment ends…and it doesn’t feel finished? Like a word was about to be said,or a feeling was about to land—and then it just…...
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Ep 18: The Child Who Followed the Map Exactly
🌿 The Child Who Followed the Map Exactly A Hollow Tree myth for the ones who notice where the lines don’t quite meet. 🎙️ Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the children who read the instructions twice.For the ones who notice when the picture on the box doesn’t match the pieces...
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Ep 17: The Mossling’s Secret
🌲 The Mossling’s Secret A Hollow Tree myth for the ones who need soft places. Welcome to The Hollow Tree This is a story for the ones who feel a little calmer with bare feet, …and today, something small is watching from beneath the soft green. Let’s begin… 🕯️Forest Friend: Have you ever noticed...
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Ep 16: (Spring Equinox) The Day the Sky Learned to Share
Welcome to The Hollow Tree This is a seasonal offering, shared at the turning of the seasons—the Spring Equinox. A time when day and night rest in the same sky,neither one reaching further than the other. For just a little while,the world remembers how to hold two things at once. Light and...
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Ep 15: Seasonal Special Episode (St. Patrick’s Day) — The Clover That Made a Door
🍀 Seasonal Special Episode — St. Patrick’s Day The Clover That Made a Door A Hollow Tree myth for the lucky noticers. Welcome to The Hollow Tree This is a special seasonal episode shared in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. A holiday deeply rooted in Irish culture and carried across oceans by families...
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Ep 14: The Umbrellapuff Pact
🕯️ Whisper: Some pacts are signed in ink.Some are sealed with pinky fingers.And some… are made under mushroom caps,after a storm,when the world is very, very quiet. Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the children who feel a little different.For the ones who notice too much.For the...
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Ep 13: The Lantern That Waited
🕯️ The Lantern That Waited A Myth for the Ones Who Needed a Little Longer to Arrive 🕯️ Whisper: Not all light arrives at the same hour. Some dawns are pink.Some are gold.Some take their time stretching into the sky. Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the children who bloom in their...
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Ep 12: The Child Who Spoke in Color
🌈 The Child Who Spoke in Color A Myth for the Ones Who Feel the World in Ways It Hasn’t Learned to Listen To Yet 🕯️ Whispered, gentle and certain: Not all language is made of words. Some of it is made of light. Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the children whose senses are…
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Ep 11: The Lantern Beetle’s Wish
🪲 The Lantern Beetle’s Wish A Myth for the Ones Who Long to Be Seen 🕯️ Whispered: There are lights that shout.And there are lights that wait. Some lights blaze across the sky.And some glow small and steadywhere only careful eyes can find them. Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the...
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BonusEp1: First Grown-Ups Episode
🌿 The Hollow Tree — A Grown-Ups Episode On Holding the Children Who Feel the World Sideways Welcome to a special Grown-Ups episode of The Hollow Tree. If you are listening with little ones nearby, this episode is safe for their ears. But today, we are speaking directly to you. To the ones...
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Ep 10: The Story of Bramblekin
Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for the children who carry too much noise.For the ones who don’t always cry out loud.For the ones who feel the world before they understand it. Let’s begin. 🍃 Forest Friend Whisper [Chime] “There are small keepers under the roots of the world.They...
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Ep 9: The Glass-Heeled Kelpie
Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for those who know that the smallest water is often the deepest. It is for the children who are tempted to lean just a little too far, and for the grown-ups who teach them how to keep their balance. Let’s begin. 🍃 Forest Friend Whisper [Chime]…
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Ep 8: The Keeper of the Thanking Tree
This is a podcast for children (and grown-ups) who see the world a little slanted— who feel things deeply, ask big questions, and crave stories with truth stitched into the seams. Each episode is a gentle offering: whispered parables, healing folklore, and sometimes a quiet lesson tucked between...
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Ep 7: The Girl Who Tended the Echoes
Welcome to The Hollow Tree. This is a story for those who listen for the answer in the wind. For the children who know that words have weight, and the grown-ups who remind them to speak gently. Let’s begin. 🍃 Forest Friend Whisper [Chime] “There is a place where the rocks have long ears and the...
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Ep 6: The One Who Was the Whole Sky
This is a podcast for children (and grown-ups)who see the world a little slanted—who feel things deeply, ask big questions,and crave stories with truth stitched into the seams. Each episode is a gentle offering: whispered parables,healing folklore,and sometimes a quiet lesson tucked between the...
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Ep 05 (Seasonal Special): Finna and the First Spark
Episode 5: Finna and the First Spark A story for the season of hush and hearth, where even spilled light becomes sacred. [Intro music — soft wind, tonal bell, or forest hush] This is a podcast for children (and grown-ups)who see the world a little slanted—who feel things deeply, ask big...
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Ep 04: The Weaver Who Forgot
The Weaver Who ForgotFor the children who hold everyone else’s concern before their own. And the ones who are learning they don’t have to. And now, the tale. Once, in a quiet cottage where the mist touched every window and the wind always knew your name, there lived a girl who could weave stories...
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Ep 03: The Door That Waited for Voice
Welcome to the Hollow Tree. This story is both a cautionary tale and a peak inside the hidden ways of the unseen that so many have forgotten. For children who are curious, for the grownups who guide them and the small folks who tolerate and sometimes delight in them. View the story in the story...
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Ep 02: The House Brownie and the Rules of Salt
The House Brownie and the Rules of Salt For children who leave out crumbs and know better than to ask for thanks. And now, the tale. Everyone thinks the house stays together because of nails and paint and plumbing. It doesn’t. It stays together because of the brownie in the walls.Not the…
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Episode One: The Voices of The Hollow Tree
Thank you for listening to The Hollow Tree Stories. This was Episode One: The Voices of The Hollow Tree. For a transcript, find The Hollow Tree on Substack. New episodes will arrive once or twice a week depending on how the wind blows through the forest. This is a public episode. If you would…
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The Hollow Tree (Podcast Trailer)
There’s a hush here. Not because nothing’s happening…but because something true is beginning. Welcome to The Hollow Tree—a storytelling space for children, and for the ones who raise them. Here, strange stories nest and grow.Some are gentle.Some are shadowed.All of them carry lanterns through the...