This is a little clip from a

rant that I did with Jemisin on the roof of my house about what it takes to

turn tough times into something magical and how you can create light even in

the darkest moments of your life. Check it out I think it's really gonna help.

What do you want to do with that? I don't know let's see what it looks like because I

wasn't even looking directly at the camera but it could be a fun thing where we

say we weren't supposed to be shooting this tonight but Matthew started

renting. When we're talking about like the meaning we give to things right?

I was thinking about nature nurture and how like the bamboo's on this side of

the garden grow much higher than the bamboo's on this side of the garden and

how there couldn't be more evidence of the fact that you know the right

conditions produce healthier trees healthier plants healthier people but the

tree analogy doesn't hold up as a perfect analogy for people because on one

hand if people have the right conditions they're likely to be stronger

more confident more secure more loved more everything and therefore lead

better lives. The difference between trees and people is that people create

meaning trees don't. Trees need light human beings can create light and it's in

the ability to create light that we have this ability over and above what plants

and trees do that are solely dependent on the right conditions. We as human

beings aren't solely dependent on the right conditions it's that story of the

two brothers that grow up with the same alcoholic father who treats his whole

family like crap and then these two brothers grow up and one goes on to treat

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