I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond. This is

episode number 420. Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler,

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Well, hello, all my dear friends, all over the world.

How are you today?

I, myself, am getting ready for a holiday weekend. I'm going to go down to the lake. We call it the lake. It's the lake of the Ozarks. And my in-laws and my son and his wife,

who is like my daughter and my three grandchildren, we are all gathering

together and we are having a little party. And these are like my favorite things to do. As you know,

being with my family and feeling the love is my favorite thing. And, you know, it doesn't get past me and I don't want it to

get past you that spring is here and that there's a lot of interesting holidays around this time

too, regardless of your religion. There seem to be holidays for all religions. And they're all

quite miraculous.

And I find it interesting that it all happens in spring. Spring is renewal.

And what do we as human beings do to bring spring on?

The answer to that, my friend, is we do nothing because we have got nothing to do with it,

but every year around this time, spring springs up, and all the things that are supposed to happen happen without any of us, pointing our fingers, making a list. It just happens.

And these holidays are kind of reminders because of all the miracles that happened during all of them is that miracles are possible too, and maybe even the

whole thing about spring in itself is a miracle. Like, how the heck do these trees know what to do?

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