Hey everyone, it's Anne, with another episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge.

You know, people in many countries are starting to feel like the worst of the pandemic is behind them,

and it's time to focus on recovery, on getting back to normal.

The U.S. has always been future-oriented, and so not to bring you down, but shouldn't this

be a time of collective mourning? A time to commemorate all the lives lost.

And if so, how do we even begin to do that?

As a nation, we have thoughts after this. Wisconsin Public Radio

It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne's Train Champs.

Every so often,

something happens that is so unusual,

so inexplicable,

it feels like a sign,

as if the universe is trying to tell you something

or prepare you for something.

I see that trying to tell you something or prepare you for something. I spend a lot of time walking in the parks on lots of different trails with my dog and also just by myself.

Heather Swan is a writer, a teacher, and a friend.

She had this amazing and mysterious encounter with an owl recently,

not too far from where Steve and I live.

So they got together for a walk in the woods, and she told him the story.

I was walking one night and saw an adult bard owl and was absolutely stunned because I hadn't ever really seen one as close as this.

I felt like I had been sort of pierced by this gaze.

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