Hello and I would normally say as usual, but it's actually been a little while,

I'm Forrest Hanson. I'm joined and I would normally say as usual, but it's actually been a little while since we've done one of these by Dr. Rick Hansen, so Dad, how are you doing?

I'm good for us and as always I'm just tickled pink that I get to do this with you.

Yeah, it's really lovely to do this again. It's been a little while. A lot has happened in the world since the last time that we recorded one of these broadcasts. Yeah, just a little bit, a little bit. And even questions like how are you doing feel very loaded right now in a lot of different

ways and I was just kind of reflecting on that as you answered where for me I can answer that on the level of the kind of

trite oh I'm doing great answer or I can say I don't know man I'm pretty

exhausted I'm pretty overwhelmed I feel deeply sad about many things that are happening out in the world and I'm also

Hopeful and optimistic and feel really buoyed

by the response of so many people

to many of those things

and that is a very kind of complicated

emotional stew to be reckoning with in a quick question like how are you doing?

We're going to talk about doing less harm and I want to pick up on a word you

use there and a related word.

The word you used was reckoning.

There is a reckoning.

And I think as individuals, there are alwaysings in our lives where we face certain things.

I can think of times I've been on meditation retreat where I'll suddenly just think about some

issue or person in my life and for the next day and a half in the in the quiet and therefore the intensity of a meditation retreat where there's no possibility of a distraction,

I will really face a reckoning internally.

With the harms I've done, with the feelings I've had, the longings that maybe were unfulfilled,

the remorse I might feel, there's a kind of reckoning.

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