Happy New Year, everyone. I hope the holiday season brought you yummy treats and lots of joy.

Even though this past year was tricky to maneuver post-pandemic, pseudo-post,

it was nice to end the year feeling thankful and hopeful, which is actually my word for this year,

hope, but we'll get to that during a later episode.

But I ought to say, happy New Year, and I'm super excited about 2023, especially as my touring dates continue to be announced.

Canada, I'm coming to see you first this year.

I'll be in Quebec March the 10th and Toronto March the 11th.

If you are in either place, please come join me for a beautiful night of music and mindfulness.

And if you're not in Canada, that's okay.

Not everyone can live there.

So if you want to check to see if I'm in your neighborhood, both stateside or in Europe or United Kingdom or wherever,

visit commentdownpodcast.com or chadlawson.com. I would love to see you in person, especially this year.

After each show, I generally do a meet and greet afterwards.

So, I mean, what better way with the world opening up for us to embrace a new year than with live music?

I am so excited.

I'm so excited. I am. I mean, I'm just so ready for this year to be better. Did you catch that? Notice I didn't say perfect. I didn't say I'm so ready for this

year to be perfect. I said, I'm so excited for this year to be better. But wait, why not perfect? I said, I'm so excited for this year to be better.

Wait, why not perfect?

I mean, shouldn't we want things to be perfect?

Chat, I'm really confused right now.

I was waiting to make my New Year's resolutions from this episode as I knew you would have

some ideas.

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