Hello my dears. Before I begin today's conversation, I want to let you know about a new book that's coming out, and it's from my lovely friend and former podcast guest, Gretchen Ruben.

Gretchen wrote a gorgeous book about savoring the life that's right in front of us. It's called Life in Five Senses.

How exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world.

And oh my gosh, yes, don't we just all need that reminder?

Gretchen is, uh, she's like such an explorer.

She wanted to look at the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a way to experience more happiness.

Joy's makes me think of that line from thorough. I want to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

It's everything from the simple pleasures of experiencing the magic of ketchup, which I think we all know that I love.

I don't know why I say that like, uh, like I'm the first person who's loved ketchup, but truly it was just so great.

It was also in our podcast episode where she's explaining to me how ketchup has all the magical things like umami.

So she looks it, I don't know, the beauty of food to curating a playlist to going to an art museum every day.

Gretchen shows us how to live awake to each day with depth and delight and connection.

So I think you're really going to love it. It's called life in the five senses and it's available now wherever books are sold.

You know that feeling where we imagine our lives along a simple trajectory that we can follow?

It's kind of like in the game of life where like this is the part where you graduate college.

This is the part where you get married. This is the part where you choose your career and buy your split level home.

This is the part when you have two healthy successful children.

This is the part where you retire at the millionaire estate stinking ding ding.

You've won the game of life.

But more often than not, our lives don't follow a trajectory.

So how do we make sense of lives that veer from our expectations, from our plans?

What might happen next? And, and then who do we become?

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