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Today's episode is Advent, fasting, and abstaining from meat.

Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick Gudro.

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I suppose it's not considered subscribing anymore because I listen to podcasts and it looks

like now it's following podcast not subscribing so I hope you follow this

podcast I hope you're doing fabulously well I'm going to tell you right now this time of year just makes me giddy with

excitement especially because living in California we are now, I'm going to say, I think, officially out of, well, we're not out of the drought, but we're

officially out of the fire season, which is always a relief and it's been raining. I think we're officially

in the rainy season, the ground is wet, the light this time of year is low and golden and

beautiful. We are at the peak of our foliage this time of year and the

air just smells so sweet and so fresh. I am just giddy every day. We're leaving soon for Rwanda and we'll be there, well

we'll be in Africa for a month because we will be in South Africa also we're scouting the garden route and we are

hosting our other African joyful vegan trap in Botswana and starting in Cape Town.

So we'll be in Rwanda, then South Africa, then Botswana, and I'm very excited about

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