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Hello, friends.

I am so delighted to bring you today's episode, which has been in the Locked Archive for

the last couple of years.

This episode was originally broadcast September 2016, and I thought it was a

great time to lift this conversation up for a few reasons. First, I have been thinking a lot about

mindful connections in relationships, whether that is at home with John and my kids or with friends. And I love that these ideas in this

conversation are both simple and yet signal intentionality in togetherness. Second, though I love

supporting the local economy, sometimes I just get a little annoyed by how expensive it is to go out.

And especially since, well, right now I'm doing things like paying for college, so I'm trying

to be mindful of recreational expenses. Also, speaking of expenses and logistics and general

stress, sometimes finding a babysitter is hard. I have teens now,

so I'm out of that zone, but I so well remember the scramble, the expense, as well as the

utter hilarity that on the rare occasions where we went on a date, we would come home and our babysitter

would just be getting their

evening started. I wanted to make a few notes on things that I was reminded of and loved

in reproducing this episode. First, I love how Asha mentions that this episode is about

widening the definition of dinner and a movie. As I mentioned, traditional dinner in a movie and a sitter,

that kind of night adds up. And also, I have definitely found in the past that if you don't do them

that often as we didn't, and then you do it, and the dinner or the movie or both is a bomb,

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