Good day to you, my friend. Welcome back to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast. You know, I'm hanging out.

Vancouver Island.

I'm kicking it into Fino right now.

You know how when you need silence?

There's all of a sudden everyone's mowing their damn lawn and hammering and saw and shit all over.

So if you hear a saw or a hammer in the background, it's likely only because I wanted to record this intro for the podcast.

You know, I'm out here, a couple reasons.

One, I needed some forest bathing to bring my nervous system back down to a freaking baseline of being connected to nature just from you know once you visit new york you got to do

that anyways i don't know how people live there full time great place to inject yourself into but load

to live there i don't even know so many horns everyone honks all the time everything it's just like

their heart beating about everything oh cars aren't moving i moving. Oh, okay, anyway, so you will move

less fast. Like, it's ridiculous. Anyway, I am out here. I made a commitment in 2019 that I would

get quote, unquote, good at surfing. And I think compared to how I was, which was really bad, you know, people are like, oh, do you surf?

I'm like, I spend time in the ocean with a board and waves.

That is the equivalent of my surfing, but I took a lesson and I got to tell you, I'm like getting on waves.

I'm doing some turns.

I'm doing sub-surfing, which I think regular

surfers don't like stand-up paddleboard surfers, but hey, I spend my time away from them. I go

hang out and my lonesome. And it's been pretty cool. And one thing about surfing, which I think

is just so important to the aspect of life and hiking, you know, I've been out here connecting to the forest and going

on hikes in the rainforest and that type of thing. And one thing about it is you have to be in flow.

When you're on a wave, you have to be completely present. When you're in the ocean and you're on

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