Jack and the Beanstalk Archives - Cathrin Hagey https://www.cathrinhagey.com/tag/jack-and-the-beanstalk/ Author and Blogger Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:53:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 67173325 Food in Fairy Tales https://www.cathrinhagey.com/food-fairy-tales/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:04:44 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4199 I live in Saskatchewan and enjoy hiking in the prairies while musing that bison, deer and cattle (and any other grass munching creatures) live directly on top of what they love most: their food. I try to imagine how it might feel to constantly be surrounded by what I love to eat. For me, I’d […]

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]]> 4199 Free Spirits https://www.cathrinhagey.com/free-spirits/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:12:17 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4153 If you are too busy to laugh, you are are too busy, goes the proverb. One might add: If you can’t laugh, you’ve lost your way. But laughter is two-pronged. On the one hand, it’s a joyous outburst; on the other, it can be cruel and exclusive. It’s an emotional expression as complicated as we […]

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]]> 4153 Giants https://www.cathrinhagey.com/giants/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:34:06 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4017 Cross-posted at Luna Station Quarterly. In his TEDSalon NY2013 talk, “The Unheard Story of David and Goliath,” Malcolm Gladwell posits that the long-held belief that the Biblical tale is a “metaphor for improbable victories” is false. Any reader able to place the story in its proper context will see that when the Philistines put forth […]

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