Pandora’s Hope

San Francisco. Pandora's — a karaoke bar. New Year's adjacent. Working on releasing the voice, singing more, letting the bardic magic out.

The name of the place as part of the mythopoeic landscape. Pandora. Pandora's box. The opening. What comes out alongside the difficult things: hope.

Song: Demons by Imagine Dragons. Chosen as an invocation of the return of the voice and the return of hope.

Afterward: the voice came back more fully. The bardic access increased. The tone left the body and entered the field. This is the spell.