Danielle, oh my goodness, it's so good to have you back.

I love it.

I gotta be real.

I think this, maybe I know I have my uncorrected proof, this is your best book yet.

I'm just making that claim.

I don't know if you feel that way, but I feel that way.

I love it.

Thank you.

You would hope it would be my best book yet.

Like if you're not getting more like seasoned and clear and precise, yeah, something like that.

Yeah.

I at least have thought sometimes I'm like, oh, was my best thing that thing or that it

was already done?

So I just wanted to acknowledge that.

So I have to start at the top because this actually really caught me and you and I have

been friends for so long.

And I don't know if I actually knew this about you.

You wrote, on my most recent year in review exercise, I seriously considered walking away

from my creative life, which I tend to reconsider every few years.

I had this romantic notion of meditating all morning, growing potatoes on my deck for

my neighbors, wearing white peasant blouses, and never checking Instagram ever again.

So I was like, yeah, and I feel as though so many of us, people I know myself included,

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