Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr. Kurt Thompson.

And my friend Pepper Sweatie.

We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.

In today's podcast, we are going to explore the importance of beauty and longing.

Hello Kurt.

Hey Pepper, great to see you today.

Great to be with you, as always.

As always, you too.

You know, so as human beings we need three basic things to survive, right?

We need food, water, and shelter. Pretty basic as you know you know we need much more than that right

and so today I think I think we're going to talk about not just what we need to

survive but what we need to thrive.

And one of the things that you and I have talked about in the past and you've taught me is just

this, how important beauty and longing are and you know as we are

recording this today we're still in the in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and and I'm finding in my life that especially beauty is something that's really helping me get through,

you know, early on in this when we were all

quarantined real strictly and I was candidly having trouble. You know, I was anxious. You know, I'm not the only person

every, most people were, anxious and and stressed and and probably fearful as well.

And one of the things that really helped me,

and you encouraged me in this, is I would go out and walk every day. I would start my

mornings with with a walk every day. Most mornings have my wife being with me

Nell and and now and just being out in nature and being really thoughtful

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