One of the things we do is called reminiscing, so we'll bring a plant, we'll talk about plants,

and we'll say, okay, tell us about a time when you grew this plant, when you were younger,

you know, and they'll go through this. These people that have dementia that

might be a little more advanced will go through and they'll tell us a whole story,

their childhood of like their grandparents or their parents growing,

pleasant bowls and having a garden. And one of the most impactful situations I had with that

was there was a woman that always came highly engaged. She would water our plants

that we had in the garden when we weren't there. And the activity director there told me,

they said, this is the only activity she comes to. Her husband died a while back and she sits in

a room all day until we come. So that's the, you know, so it's like, I just thought I was

gardening with her. Really, she was doing something, this was such a meaningful thing for her,

she would not do anything else that come out when we were doing our garden time. And so that

really kind of like, this is really important. Like we got to do this and we got to find a way to

get this to anybody and everybody. Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear?

We are misfits thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all. That's too how we're

supposed to make sense of it all. It's immensely bizarre. Here we are. Hello everybody and welcome to

here. We are today. I am at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. I'm at the UT Gardens,

as part of the one health initiative program came in for a week during this one health day,

a day each year where they try to really focus on public communication for the one health program,

which you've heard me talk about on this show and I came in for a week and got to interview a bunch

of awesome people that are involved and I'm so thrilled to talk with Derek Stowell. Thank you so

much for joining me. Thanks for having me. So our listeners are going to be very excited about what

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