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Our theme for today is nourishing our spirit in difficult times and times of collective

fear.

And, you know, I really do feel like the overriding feature of today's world is this collective

sense of the threatening and uncertain future.

And even those who assume to have their fingers on the pulse don't know, really don't

know how we're going to manage climate crisis.

Don't know what the outcomes going to be in Ukraine.

Don't know how future pandemic waves are going to play out.

And we humans don't like uncertainty.

It's hard to inhabit our lives in the moment when it all feels up for grabs, kind of out

of control.

I saw a cartoon with a fortune teller talking to a friend and she's saying, you know, I

lost a fair amount of business when some of my best clients got together and successfully

threw me a surprise party.

And our brain is a predicting machine.

You know, we need a certain amount of predicting to be able to successfully navigate.

And when this world is destabilized, it triggers a deep fear in the collective psyche.

So, the more we sense the reality of inevitable loss and suffering around the corner, the

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