Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

We are shooting on...

What are you doing?

Driving on all cylinders?

I don't know what we're doing.

We're cooking on every part of the stove.

We're...

Oh, I'm not quick with an idiom today, it would seem.

Yes, I'm a little bit slow on the idiom because I'm tired from traveling.

I did travel this weekend.

I went to New York City to do some stuff.

And it was weird because I'd never been away from our one-year-old baby because she's a plague

baby.

And so we all just hunkered here in the forest.

And she only knows that there are three people in the world or four adults who have three

dimensions and everyone else is just a flat person.

So it was the first time ever that I had to FaceTime her and I was a flat person.

And it was very sweet because we've been teaching her some sign language and she knows how to say please

when she wants something like this.

And when I FaceTimed her, she frantically started doing, please, please.

And I think she wanted me to come out of the phone, but I couldn't.

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