Welcome to the commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasno.

How many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article, where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles

and release it here as a bonus episode. So I have recently returned from a wonderful two-week

sojourn in France with my family. Now, going to a foreign country, or even a place that just feels foreign, especially one with a different language, carries a certain kind of mystery.

You are out of your element.

You are simultaneously timid and adventurous like a child.

I remember when you were a kid and you went into the woods. Maybe your parents told you

not to go there. It was dark and exotic. You were scared but kept going and you stumbled onto something

that you'd never seen before and that you'd never see again. It was exhilarating. Our conceptual

mind seeks certainty, but our heart mind, Kokoro, hunts the unknown, not the thing, but its

rippled reflection. Today's episode is a riff on the delight of exploring the unknown.

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regenerative agriculture, and much more. So without further delay, here's today's episode

titled The Blue Door.

I am sitting on a threadbare foetille in a cramped flat on Rue de la Harp in the fifth arrondissement.

Profoundly knackered from the jet lag and long days of interminable walking, I stare hazily out the port finette.

Evidently, egalite and fraternity extends to building codes in the city of lights.

You cannot build above five floors in central Paris.

This affords everyone on the top story, including me, a panoramic view of the iconic green cyan rooftops that are depicted in countless

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