Welcome to Food For Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest a life-motivated

and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness.

Today's episode is looking backward, inward and forward.

My name is Colleen Patrickadrow, welcome.

You can find me at joyfulvegan.com where you can sign up for my online vegan cooking

classes or for any of the very exciting trips I'm hosting in 2022.

We have two to Italy, one to Rwanda and one to Botswana.

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Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy this short end of year episode.

I wanted to cross the threshold together from 2021 to 2022 before connecting with you

again in the new year.

Hi everyone.

I hope you're doing well and that you're finding some joy and hope and meaning during this

time, this difficult time as we near the end of two years living in a pandemic, dealing

with the consequences of climate change.

We here in California with our wildfires have experienced that.

I know you, if you've experienced flooding or hurricanes or just name any of the things

that we've seen this past year, and just managing the challenges of living a life and

a compassionate life at that, over the last couple years, I have brought you some episodes

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