Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.

Welcome to the gathering room. I'm Martha Beck because I am the person who decided to call something the gathering room and then show up.

I'm going to arrange by camera differently and everything.

Ha ha ha. Okay, so how you doing, guys? It's almost to the end of 2020 and all the puns are going

around the internet about 2020 hindsight and did you have a vision for 2020 and what's your 2020 vision so I was

going to do all of those and then people told me they were cheesy and cliche so

instead I happened upon I'm actually a wonderful writer who writes for my company

offered for my coach training her name is is Sally McGraw. She's a

brilliant writer. If you want to hire a brilliant writer, hire Sally McGraw. But she wrote a beautiful

thing on Facebook about how it's getting harder and harder for her to feel okay about the world,

that 2020 made it very hard for her to feel okay, and that she's been actually coping by

bringing in lots and lots and lots of houseplants. And she said she actually walked out of her

bedroom and looked at her living room and said,

I have officially lost my mind because it's completely filled with houseplants.

And she put a picture of it in there.

And it really, it's almost like stepping into a jungle.

There really are a lot of houseplants.

I agree with you, Sally, that there are a lot of house plants in your house.

I do not agree that you've lost your mind. I think you may be getting your mind back.

You know, you guys know that one of my big obsessions is the transformation of consciousness

that I believe must come to change mankind's

way of being on the world so that we can continue to be on the world and not fry ourselves

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