Beginning and End Speeches

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A meadow in early morning somewhere on earth. Hidden here is a world as vast as our own, where the weeds are like impenetrable jungles, stones are mountains, and even the smallest pond becomes an ocean. Time passes differently here. An hour is like a day, a day is like a season, and the passing of a season is a lifetime. But to observe this world you must fall silent now and listen to its murmurs.

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The night gives way once more. Nothing will stop what’s now in motion, what hides in shadow, what surges forward, what flutters toward the light. Here, where time is measured out in moments, and new lives emerge from darkness, the day begins like any other. Beyond anything we could imagine, and yet almost beneath our notice.