Terry Tempest Williams
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630 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Terry Tempest Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It doesn't go blank.
And I don't remember what she said, but I think it somehow connected to the clouds because when I was watching clouds shapeshift,
my mind was completely present and focused and that was the closest i could come to having an empty mind yeah okay let's keep going three more cards one two or three three were you obsessed with a particular cosmic question as a kid um
Was I obsessed with a particular cosmic question?
Mm-hmm.
You can define cosmic however you want.
I was incapacitated by ritual.
Incapacitated by ritual.
I had to perform my own rituals, or I felt the world would be out of balance, or something would happen to our family.
We would go to Capistrano every year like the Swallows.
We would return.
And before we left, I just remember my father honking or my uncle honking with all the kids in the station wagons because I knew I had to be the last one.
And I would go down to the water and I would perform these hand patterns at the edge of the sea.
And then I would know that we could return again.
And if I didn't, something would happen.
So this is borderline superstitious, right?
It was not even superstitious.
It was, this was my belief.
Yes, it was your belief, yeah.
As a child, I really paid attention to those rituals, those patterns.
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