Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste, welcome. Thank you for being here, friends. So in the United States, it's the day before Thanksgiving, and as with many parts of the world,

we're entering a season of holy days.

And at the same time, it's shadowy, uncertain in our world.

For many, there's a sense of unraveling.

My favorite thing about Thanksgiving, and as I'll mention, there's lots that I can find difficult,

my favorite thing is its name, because it directly points to something beautiful, which is giving thanks.

So in that spirit,

I wanted to pause a bit

and just take some moments

to express my thanks to you who are here with me right now.

I thank you for your company,

for your care, for your presence.

You know, I've never in my life felt so strongly the power of feeling accompanied by caring others, as in recent years.

That power of knowing we're part of something larger, that we're joined by our love for truth,

by our love for love, by our caring about life. So thank you, friends, each of you from my

heart for holding hands on this journey. I really do feel us together in the field. And that matters more

than words can say. I'm pausing right now again, just as I thank you, just to name that

feeling gratitude, sincerely feeling it in the body and expressing it is such a feeling that ah, I'm at home in who I am.

So really, thank you.

And as you might have suspected, gratitude is our theme. And I'll be sharing a reflection on gratitude

from the archives that feels made for these times. It's about reclaiming holy days, holy

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