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for the weekend edition here.

It is the 19th of April, and I hope everyone's doing well.

I hope spring is in your area, you well it's just coming to New York

where I am right now last weekend I was in Mississippi and it was funny it was like

late spring there going into summer it's like early spring here. Flowers are coming up. It's

beautiful. You know and I had a wonderful time. Thank you. I know some of you do

pray for me when I travel and and I mentioned I know to the

to the patrons at Patreon that it was gonna be a little hard for me to a memorial service and it was

gonna be a little hard for me to go to a memorial service and it was and so I appreciate that and I won't take up too much of your time on the personal stuff

But for those who are interested it was different for me. I went to a grave side service in California when my grandfather passed away and you don't think about these differences but this was in a church and there was more people there and and so I wasn't even expecting to speak but then my brother spoke and so I was like well I got to speak so I went up there and I almost lost it and I did record it but I may not not share that I may never share it we'll see it was just

super emotional but it was really good and and had a great time being with family and it's great to have a place. I realize how

blessed I am in that. So many people in this transitive world don't have a place that they

feel like they belong. and you know I think of even like

Jewish people who don't go to Israel right they live in the United States their

whole lives and then they go to Israel and what happens every

person I know all my Jewish friends who have done this they come back and they say

wow I I could live there I felt like this was a place that I belong though they had never been there before.

And of course I have been to Mississippi many times, but I think I have a sense of that. Like that's there's a place to belong to, there's a home,

especially in the more where we were, in the more rural areas where, I mean it is true old times there

are not forgotten and there's a lot of old stories

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