Hello, my friends, and welcome to Life with Sally podcast. I'm so glad you're here, so please make yourself a cup of tea and come on in.

Hello, my friend. Welcome. I'm Sally Clarkson. I am so glad that you joined me today. I am a little bit wondering if this is going to turn out okay. I am, I have to admit to you, I am sitting in my pajamas after the hottest bath in the world. I had so much fun because I,

this is the, I don't know, the third or fourth week that I've been gone and I normally never pack myself in like this, but I had the most wonderful weekend, this weekend, to be able to go

to H-U-T-C-H-M-M-O-T, a meeting of a bunch of rabbits.

Actually, it's based on the rabbit room, which is an organization that my friend Andrew Peterson started many years ago.

And Huchmood is a gathering each year in a conference that they have in Nashville.

And several hundred people come who aspire to being a writer, a musician, an artist, a graphic artist, a visual artist, anything creative, you know, from working in sculpture and working in book covers and writing books.

And so it's a kind of a kind of a kindred spirit sort of a conference.

And Clay and I have been going for many years.

It's he actually named it many years ago.

And that's something else that you'll have to find out about yourself someday.

But anyway, I was absolutely thrilled.

This is Sally Clarkson.

Did I say that?

I was absolutely thrilled because I had the opportunity of meeting a number of really wonderful women that actually are either in our membership or listen to my podcast, have read my books.

And I realized what a rich fellowship it was for me just to meet these precious women with great stories and hear about

their families, their children, their lives, their creativity. And it was so encouraging to see that

they aspire to bringing some kind of creativity or beauty or message into their world to be able to

leave a godly imprint from their own lives.

And so it's a really lovely time. It is a time where you are busy morning, noon, and night,

going to seminars, talking to people. I had the opportunity of speaking there. And so when I

finally got home this afternoon from Nashville, I took a hot bath,

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