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some joy, some pleasure, and dropping some gems, learning some stuff, focusing on mental health.

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And yeah, we got a great show plan for you, though. We're going to be talking about, dun-da-da-dun-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-romance.

Ah, yes.

We're going to be doing a little bit of a deep dive, understanding the breadth of creativity

and diversity that is some of our relational orientations along with sexual orientations

and just talking about rest, something we need more of.

But I wanted to open the show by talking about an important topic.

How do we talk to kids and those around us about things that we're seeing on the news?

It's really hard to not be in some way aware or participating in what's going on around us.

In fact, I want people to be very aware and very involved.

I think now's the time more than ever that we need to lean into the difficult news and things that we're hearing around the world.

So as to understand the problematic systems that are in existence and that we are a part of and that sometimes we're, you know, perpetuating, right?

But we have these young ones, these little nuggets running around that need to understand what they're looking at and what they're hearing.

And so we as adults need to be able to talk to those around us, especially kids, about

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