I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Anya Graham and Coffee.

Hello, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I hope your week is treating you well.

Happy Wednesday, happy middle of the week. I hope the midweek slumps haven't hit yet. Too hard today.

They've hit me a little, but you know what, we survive. And it's only two more days to the weekend,

so I can't really complain. Speaking of, for those of you who've been following along on the

Sowani journey, I just wanted to update you that I am adjusting well. And I kind of had this

observation where at home in Asheville, I love our space. I love our home. It feels great to me.

It's super comfortable. It's aesthetically. It feels like us, you know, and it's it's very clean

and very nice and very convenient to everything. And I love our home. But I feel as though we have

a real lack of community there, I used to feel like I had more community when I was younger and I

was more of a partier. I think Asheville is just like a big drinking town. And I don't know.

And maybe I've just looked in the wrong places, but I just haven't really found a group of people

since I've gotten older who I really feel like I connect with on a passion level and a career level.

I have individual friends that I feel that way about, but not like a group. You know what I mean?

But here in Soani, I mean, I just feel like the community here is lovely and incredible and

probably the absolute highlight of this experience. I just look, love, adore so many of the people here

and the experiences that we get to have with them like last night. We did an open mic night at

this little restaurant called the Blue Chair. And it was like half MFA students from the program here.

And then like half older people who live in the community. And then there was like a couple of

high school kids and then me and OV and I both read. And it was just really sweet and really fun

and incredible to hear everybody and to get to share. I loved it. And then as we know, the home

space is not my vibe. It doesn't feel super comfortable to me. And so it's almost like what I have at home,

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