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Welcome and Namaste my friends.

Really good to be with you.

This evening's reflections are in honor of Earth Day, which is tomorrow.

I thought I'd start with a favorite story.

This is a story about Mulla Nazroudin, who's a sufy wise man and also somewhat of a jokester.

And in this story, he's resting under the shade of a tall, luscious walnut tree.

And as he's daydreaming, he notices these huge pumpkins that are growing on delicate vines

snaking across the ground.

And then he looks up and he squints and he sees these tiny little walnuts growing on these

magnificent trees.

And he says, how strange Mother Nature is.

And he's thinking to make plump pumpkins grow on these spiny little vines while these

little walnuts have their own impressive tree.

And just then a walnut fell from above and it landed with that tuck on Mulla Nazroudin's

head.

And he rubs his sore head and picks up the fallen walnut and he looks high up toward

the branches of the tree.

And then he looks over, thankfully, at the swollen pumpkins growing safely on the ground.

And he says, oh, Mother Nature, you are wise.

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