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The kindly light of myth in circling glue, lead thou me on the night is dark and I am far from home.

It's really good to have you all here. I understand there's a number of people that are paying attention from outside this location and so welcome all of them as well.

It's a unique evening and incredibly grateful to have you all here. There's a remarkable collection of thought leaders and just unique great personalities inside this bonded community.

It's a pleasure to know each of you.

I'd like to of course welcome our guest, of course, his wife Connie. Where's Connie? She's pretty close. Turns out she's right here. She was left.

I suspect most time to his right though. She seems pretty sharp. It's really nice to have you up here.

Just with all of those that are here, I'd just like to call out what a unique evening it is to have Sandra with us as well.

It would be too long to distract him to go through all the different recognizable faces and voices from this really unique community.

Most importantly, how about from the hearts of all those who are watching from outside and from everyone here? Well, so many of us have gone to wealth. No, I guess let me take that back.

We all started in the same place. I don't know how we all got into that place. We all have our story how we got into that world.

We all have a very common theme on how we have ended up here tonight. The way the things that occupy our thoughts these days.

But for many of us, for many of the authors that are in the room with us this evening, really grateful. Thank you.

For many of us reading the words of Grant Palmer, you know, were times when not just education, but changes, you know, decisions and new switches being turned.

You know, reading the pages of his books and his research. And so for me, it's deeply personal because Holly and I went through our process inside the pages of Grant Palmer's words.

So for everyone, we welcome Grant Palmer.

And of course, we have this evening, the man that brought this all together for us.

Mr. John Dillin.

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