So Marty, I got a text from our friend Kate the other night that literally said,

how many chickens would you say you have in your living room right now because the yard flooded?

Which is Kate's very cute way of saying, I've got chickens in my living room.

Three chickens, two cats.

Yeah, it was a complicated evening.

And just that one text led us into a really interesting conversation about the way our culture teaches us to avoid the things that make life rich and full and it substitutes for them, hollow

pixelated abstractions.

So, yes, touch is the thing we avoid and time is the thing we fear.

And we went into a deep discussion about it.

Yeah, I think we pretty much solved the meaning of life.

So hope you enjoy it, everyone.

See you on the other side.

So as some of you listeners may know, a few months ago,

Roe and I started something called the Wilder Community,

which is kind of an online village,

where people like us who want to find

our true nature, even if it peels us away from culture, can get together, commun, make friends,

and do things.

We have all kinds of regular events in there that are just so fun.

We have a weekly hang where we get together and we have

conversation. We make art in our own little rooms, in our own little places, but all together.

There are group meditations that Martha leads that are crazy powerful. And there are just

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