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I noticed you have like the little the cat with the hand back there and some of my Buddha stuff going

on. What is that all about? Are you just like super spiritual or? Yes, very spiritual. So the cat

is actually from my grandma's, my grandma's Buddhist. She's the Japanese side of my family so that's

this is like a little homage to her and then this little statue in the back is actually a recent

anniversary gift from my husband. So it's the maiden, the mother and the crown. So I don't know if

you're familiar with that story but it's kind of the evolution of like the female experience and the

divine feminine and then kind of the different stages that we go on throughout life and the whole

idea is eventually that you encompass all three of them. So it's not abandoning any of those

things which I think Western culture does a lot which is like we get old and now we're not

desirable anymore and somehow we're a lesser than and in like the old day he's that wasn't how

we looked at it. Like an older woman is wise she still has this wildness about her. There's still

something like pull it like grab it like that like a gravity that kind of like pulls people in.

Like she's still very enticing even in her old age so it's not giving up on that that

proclivity. It's just like a more well rounded version of what a woman is supposed to be.

Ooh I actually really really like that. I mean I've heard the story before but I don't think I've ever

appreciated it as as much as how you just kind of talked about it because you know like I talk a lot

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