Yes. Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Robcast. It's episode 383. It's the first episode of 2025.

So this episode is called Official What We Do, 2025 Talk.

We are starting the year with a banger. How's that for the most cumbersome awkward title of an

episode ever official what we do 2025 talk i've been repeating a number of things to myself recently

and uh it helps me stay grounded and centered because these, are you having this?

Like this experience, these are some strange days. This year showed up, like, try and figure me out.

Because this, two weeks ago ago i was taking pictures of my

things here in my studio space and then at home for insurance purposes because the weather report

said there were high winds coming and it's been very hot and dry and that brings with it all this

fire potential and there was a big fire here in 2017 called

the thomas fire so that happened here in the ohai valley recently we didn't live here but it's like

it's like in the collective memory very strong and then fires did start an hour from here and I'm sure you're like me you saw those

images and uh Los Angeles burnings just just devastating and several those fires were

close to where we used to live for years and so and then seeing friends who had evacuated from Los Angeles here in Ohio,

because they had to figure out somewhere to go, that's just, that's all, that's a lot. That is

a lot. And then there's this new president who's the former president who's actually an old

president and there's all that thing happening so uh yeah that's that's a lot so so first off if

you find yourself recently just like what is what is happening? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're talking about.

So what I want to do is give you a couple of things that I repeat to myself that help me.

I don't know. Mantras, phrases, words, truths that just are help keeping me like

one foot in front of the other. Yeah. Speaking of that, if you want to come to Ohio and sit under the

trees, I think there are a couple of spots for February and then there's March and then May.

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