All right, guess what? My neighbor just stopped mowing his lawn. You just hit play. And here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

Welcome to anybody who happens to be new around here today.

Everybody else, what's up?

How's everything going in your world?

I don't know where you are or when you are listening to this,

but at the moment of this intro's recording, it is springtime in Pennsylvania and the natural world

is bursting out in a fantastic manner.

It's unbelievable.

Some of you may remember years ago during the pandemic, we planted a tree in my backyard.

If you remember that, if you're a listener who remembers me talking about planting the tree

in the backyard, you're a real one because that's a very

obscure reference to the personal stuff that I share on this show. So if you remember that tree,

which we named lovely, that tree for the first time ever, I think it was three or four years

ago now that we planted. I can't remember exactly, but it's flowering for the first time.

And last year, before springtime, really, we put a birdhouse in our backyard.

And no birds seemed to make use of it last year and we were wondering like oh but this year a little

bird family took the took over the house these little house sparrows and we've been watching the

the male and the female all this time and they built the nest and now they've been feeding the little chicks

and then today my wife saw one of the little chicks fly out of the birdhouse to the fence, the little one.

So it's pretty amazing to just observe nature happening in a natural cycle like that.

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