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

All right, let's talk here today.

So, yesterday was like a perfect day for me.

I got to do all my things.

I just set up this little circuit in my room where I went from working on a painting

to working on a new project for teaching and coaching and everything to doing a little workout

on my little workbench and my yoga mat and then going in like thinking on the piano and then

back to the art project, back to the teaching project, back to the art project back to the teaching project back to the

piano back to the weights it was like the most fabulous day i got so much done and i just got up this

morning rolled over and started in again because i was so excited and i worked on my my project

my teaching project for about um i don't know. I woke up at like 6.30. Anyway, an hour ago,

I was still working on it. And Roe said to me, what are you going to do the gathering on? And I said,

I don't know. I'll think about that tomorrow. And she said, but it's in an hour. And I was like, but today is Sunday.

And she said, no, it is Monday. This is how it goes. So I put down the project I was working on.

Now it was different today. And here is why. I was working on making instruments, is what social scientists call them, like a quiz

with automatic scoring that feeds out into a scoring system. And to do that, I had to do some

spreadsheet stuff and I had to like know the Google sheets and the codes that would go through and which things

have to be coded or reverse coded or it was all very left hemisphere. Now I have written a book

about how our culture favors the left hemisphere and it gets us all up in there and tells us

that's what's real. And it's the right hemisphere, and it gets us all up in there and tells us that's what's real.

And it's the right hemisphere that experiences things like timeless joy and love and creativity

and connection. So since I wrote that book, I pretty much stay in my right hemisphere.

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