Tranquility, DeJure, January 7, 2013.

Bonjour and welcome to our first edition of 2013, and I am so excited to share today's feature.

It's a recording of a wonderful presentation by the lovely Julia Butterfly Hill.

And it's based on her wonderful, wonderful kind of activism efforts around the idea of what's your tree. You may remember she's the

woman who stayed up in a tree for two years and in an effort to save a redwood named a Luna.

And so I recorded this last week and I really feel like it was one of the most powerful

presentations I've ever heard.

So I was over the moon to let this be our very, very first podcast for 2013.

So welcome to the 261st edition of Tranquility DeJure.

And I wanted to also mention a few things.

One is that I did a blog post on Saturday.

I'm just kind of reaching out and letting my lovely readers know kind of where I was with a revamp to the blog.

And nothing huge, and I'm not even sure kind of what it will look like.

But I was just asking for feedback

from blog readers. I had planned to return to my weekly columns and I was taking last week off

while I was in New York doing tons of yoga and going to hear different speakers, etc.

And spending time with friends. And then whenever I got back, I was like, huh, you know, maybe a little

switchup would be good. And so that's kind of what I'm reaching out for. And so my idea is that in

January, I'll just kind of dabble and explore a few different things. You know, I find that some of the

blog posts, they take, you know, quite a bit of time, say,

finding images for things I love.

And I'm like, to what end, you know, in what way is this really helping support the world

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