Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Welcome to the Gathering Room. I'm Martha Beck.

Did I get it right? I did. Okay, fabulous.

So today I wanted to talk about how everything is sacred. I think I called it everyday sacred

or sacred every day or some other concatenation of those three words, sacred every and day.

And the reason is that I've been getting a lot of benefit from three precious allies, well four, my two dogs, my son Adam and the COVID virus.

And it's been helping me realize a better way to be in the world as opposed to the way I was

taught and the way you were taught almost certainly.

If you were raised, say, I don't know, in an undiscovered group of people in the jungle of Peru,

then maybe you did not learn this, but I learned this, that you're supposed to rush through every day

and that the hallmarks of the day are a list of tasks you must do,

whether it's stuff that you are assigned to do,

what you're meant to do, you're a mother, or you're a father,

so you get up and you do these things for your children,

or you work at a specific place,

so you get up and you do these things for your job, or you work at a specific place so you get up and you

do these things for your job, or you are a useful member of society so you get up and

you keep your yard clean and you like do your civic duty or whatever.

It's just a long list of tasks.

You are your own taskmaster.

And I've seen other cultures throughout my life that don't live this way, just flashes of them.

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