Hey, hey, it's your host, Kamea. I've been feeling kind of perpetually overwhelmed by the state of the world,

and I'm really realizing again how important it is to have a daily re-centering practice for myself.

So I've been really working on that, and I'm not sure how this may be finding you,

but I want to use this maybe as a gentle reminder

for you as well to also nurture a ritual or practice whatever that may look like that feels

the most grounding to you. And also, if you happen to be interested in working on this with me

and with us, I want to invite you to check out Alchemize,

Green Dreamers 12-week audio-based program of daily imagination and creative practices, inspired

by a lot of our show's inquiries, and led by a variety of our past guests, collaborators, and myself.

My inspiration to conceive this offering really came from this question,

what could it be like to partake in practices of mindfulness that aren't just about this

re-centering of us as individuals, but like practices of earthfulness.

So like moving from mindfulness to earthfulness that reroute our imagination

and embodiment in our deeper and broader webs of relations. This is the question that undergirds

the program as an invitation to move beyond engaging a lot of the topics that we talk about

on the show intellectually, but into

more embodied, sensorial, participatory, and creative ways. So yeah, Alchemize is now open for

enrollment again, and if this speaks to you, I welcome you to learn more at greendreamer.com slash alchemize.

There's a temptation that some people have to think learning languages is neat or cool,

but what kind of economic value does it really have? To that, I would say, does it have to have

economic value to have value? The connection that we get to community, culture, language,

it's part of the tapestry of things that people need

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