Hi, it's Andy here, and welcome to Radio Headspace, and to Thursday morning.

So I don't know if you're someone who thinks a lot about your impermanence, your mortality,

and over some people it's something they think about a lot, for others not much at all.

For some it's an empowering thing for others, it's a very sort of scary thing.

I think as you've seen in the right light, it can bring a real sense of ease and a greater

sense of presence to our life, it can be actually a really positive thing.

A few years back I was really sort of struck, you know you have those moments in life where

your sense of mortality, just for whatever reason, becomes that much more evident.

We just had our first child, he was probably about three or four months old at the time,

so quite young, we were still very much in the weeds as they say.

And we had an electrical fire in the house that we were renting.

Thankfully no one was hurt, but the house was quite badly damaged and it was very clear

that we would not be able to live in it for a while.

So the land lady very kindly offered to put us up somewhere else and she gave us a budget.

You know we were living here in LA and so I thought well if we can live anywhere, then

maybe we're going to live in Hawaii for a few weeks while they're doing the house,

if she's going to pay for it, that's amazing.

And so we found a place in Hawaii and we found ourselves heading off to this island.

It was an interesting dynamic because you know it's a Hawaii, it's a tropical paradise

at the same time.

We have a very young baby, we're still adjusting to that kind of life.

And equally there was a lot of work kind of going on for me.

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