Welcome to the Conversations, That Matter Podcast. I'm your host John Harris enjoying a

nice summer day here in upstate New York. You can see it is beautiful. I got my rocks behind me and my trees and this is actually in my yard. My yard's basically a hill and it's a beautiful hill though, so I get to rest in the shade and and most of what I've been doing

hasn't been resting so I just want to say first of all thank you to everyone who some of you

for so long had been following my life and I and you've been supportive

of our efforts to have a child and of course we want children but last week the

Lord was so gracious to us in providing the little precious life of Anna Elizabeth Harris and she's cute and her face changes every day and we're just enjoying those changes and watching her

discover things for the first time in the world around her

and she's just she's healthy.

We couldn't ask for a more beautiful healthy daughter.

We have family coming over just about every day since the birth and so,

and that's continuing.

So I've been doing my wife's work, I've been entertaining family,

I've been doing my stuff so I've been busy but I've also

taken somewhat of a reprieve a break from some of the normal things that I would normally be addressing on the

podcast and I think that's important. I need my own maternity leave I guess. That's what we're told, right?

That men also have maternity leaves.

I thought was the funniest thing when I first heard that.

But obviously you can't take care of your family

in the ways that you should and work full time.

That becomes difficult.

And so that does eat into some of what I've been doing,

but it's all good stuff.

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