Hello everybody. Welcome back to Becoming the People. I'm Prentice Hemphill. I host this show,

and I'm grateful to be with you all yet another week. It's been a hell of a week, as usual. Every week has been a hell of a week. But I hope there's some light, some beauty in your life. I hope that you're changing right before your own eyes. I wish that for everybody. And yeah, there's a lot going on in my life this week. I don't have,

I'm not actually sure where this episode is going to go if I'm perfectly honest with you.

I have some like rough sketches. I have some notes, but I'm not entirely clear how I'm going to

land the plane on this episode.

But I've had a little bit of a rough week.

There's some illness in my family that I've been tending to.

And yeah, just moments like that, it just...

There's these moments of like, big, big events, big illness,

these ruptures that come through our families, that come through our lives, really, really shake things up or really are shaking things up for me, some foundational stuff.

So I don't know. I mean, I have a feeling I'm not the only one there. I feel like we try to

push illness and death off to the margins of our lives and not really bring them into the center.

But my suspicion is that many of us are

dealing with all sorts of life complexities in this moment. So my compassion and my love, my heart

to everybody who is also navigating those complexities and all of us who will navigate those complexities

and all of us that aren't at our absolute best because of how challenging life and grief can be.

Yeah, that's honestly where I'm at this week.

But I did want to connect because I'm finding that even in those moments of feeling

kind of low and unsure and certainly feeling grief I'm getting so much out of still

connecting with people and talking to my friends and sometimes going down into the deep dark well and sometimes just

kiki in and hanging out. Both are really serving me. So I wanted to connect with you all,

even still, even still in this moment. Because, you know, for some of us, maybe this is one of the few moments where you feel

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