Hello everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind,

and make you brave. I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true,

and beautiful. So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere

comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode. Love is not power. To love is to be vulnerable and it is only in vulnerability and risk,

not safety and security that we overcome darkness. Hello everybody and welcome

to Reading with Joy, my summer book club where we are exploring a wrinkle and time, a strange but

wonderful book, which has really encouraged me in this strange and sometimes wonderful time that

we all find ourselves in 2020. The fun thing about doing this book club is that every week I have

invited a different friend to talk about the book with me, and I'm so excited today to have on my

friend my Colorado friend Brandy Knowles welcome Brandy thank you Joy I'm so

excited I've been loving your book club it's been so fun to do this and hear

people talk about it and we decided to do this a couple of weeks ago when I got

back we just thought it

would be so fun so today we are sitting on my porch outside so if you hear any

chirping birds that is how we're doing this and a I guess I guess it's sort of a

socially distanced podcast for sure so before we get into anything tell everybody about yourself a bit brandy well i am a friend of

your family for what now i think 14 years that's crazy to me and it's just been lovely getting to know

each and every one of you differently but um also i i've been here in Colorado for 14 years.

I have two girls that are 22 and 23.

One is married and one is engaged.

Oh my gosh, busy year for you guys.

Yes, very busy year, back to back.

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