Well greetings and salutations faithful listener and perhaps new listener. You are all indeed

always welcome to drop by. Okay. And just so you know, the Hawkins House is one of those

where once you enter everything is at your disposal. It's make yourself at home times

a hundred. Okay. Use any bathroom you like, eat what you want, drink our lacroise, drink

from the milk jug. I don't care. Spank our neighbor's children, yell at them, I don't

care. Hey, it takes a village, right? So I'm pretty progressive when it comes to home

life and my things. If you need it and I'm not really using it by all means in dulled

and that's really Heather and my favorite, Heather and my is I don't even know the Heather

and my is that right? Heather and my favorite thing to do is just have people over and enjoy

one another's company and I think I've gotten better at being a host and really being a friend.

Okay. Folks believe it or not, I used to be kind of a snob when it came to people. I would

always complain to Heather and we were at get togethers with other people about how bored

I was and she finally said something that turned me right around. She said, well, maybe you're

so bored because you're so boring and by jove she was right. So from then on, I tried

to become a better listener. Okay. To be in the conversation, that's what conversation

means, converse, to verse with others, right? So not just waiting for them to shut up so

I can spout my brilliance. I already know what I know. How much more fun is it to elucidate

contemplate and evaluate new ideas with someone else? Wow. When that happens, people magically

become far less boring and so do I. Speaking of elucidating, I've got a friend on the line

who I consider my life coach, my guru. He's a deep thinker and far from boring and his

name is IKEA man. That's what I call him. IKEA man. What's up greetings to him. High

is on or hall. That is from the traditional Swedish greeting, meaning how it goes. It

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