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So here we are approaching the end of 2021.

And it's, you know, for, if we were two years ago, very, very difficult to anticipate how

things have unfolded.

And, you know, from the perspective of, let's say, through the negativity bias, you know,

it's been such a time of multiple crises, you know, the ongoing pandemic and of course

the climate emergency, the rise of fundamentalism, you know, really rough times.

And through another lens, there's been a lot of waking up in these last few years.

I mean, I really think of it as many, many people have woken up to the reality of our

endager earth.

And there's been across the society wide, I think, waking up to the higher and dimensions

of racism.

There's a lot going on, you know, I've been kind of really stunned by the number of

non-profit organizations that have cropped up around the world that helped the earth for

racial justice, social justice, and awareness trainings, you know, mindfulness and compassion

trainings and organizations and prisons and schools and government, you know, there's

a lot going on.

So there's this huge juxtaposition of forces in the human psyche.

I often think of a songwriter, Butch Hancock, and he describes how life in his hometown

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