What's the crack you will name it, Quavis? Welcome to the Blind By Podcast. It's the first of March.

It's Shroud Chuzde, I hope you're enjoying your tasty pancake. I spoke a little bit about Shroud Chuzde and some

Quayar traditions around it in last week's podcast. It was a particularly beautiful morning today.

Usually the first 10 days of March are horrendous. The first 10 days of March are often the death

rattle of winter. The very aggressive, windy and dark, but the smart one was absolutely fucking beautiful.

I got up at half seven, I went for my run, and there's something so special about that time of the

morning. It feels like nature is letting you in on a little secret. I wanted to drink the sky,

it was the most beautiful bright blue color that just radiated a sense of vitality and life,

and there was a carpet of frost on the ground sparkling at me like sugar on a priest's pancake,

and the sunlight, there was this enthusiastic spring sunlight, not that peachy sideways glimmer

that we got from winter, and I went down by the river, and there was fog licking the top of the water,

and comrades, there was comrades diving down and being pure cons to the eels and the

elephants and big, lanky shadows of poles and trees. Nature showed me its bare-hours this morning,

and it was a glorious hope. And when I got into my office, because I ran into work,

when I got into my office, I didn't need or want coffee, because the morning had

imbued me with the caffeine of existence, so instead, I got a Coke Zero, but they didn't have any

Coke Zero, they had cherry flavored Coke Zero, so I had a cherry flavored Coke Zero,

which I've later found out I had caffeine in it, but I didn't want the caffeine, it was given

to me involuntarily by the Coca-Cola Corporation, but fucking build up from morning, I needed that.

So what I want to speak about this week is, the news this week has been quite distressing,

Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, and it's quite upsetting, and it can elicit a feeling of anger,

it can also be frightening, and it begs the question, should I or how can I enjoy a beautiful

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