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As some of you know, I took much of the month of January off

and I began with a self-re-treat at home and then went up

to the Forest Refuge in Massachusetts where I did a more

kind of formal silent retreat, which is just lovely,

a chance to slow down enough to really take in the moments

and feel some real stillness and silence.

And I missed the blizzard down in Washington.

Anyway, I came back to a lot, a lot of them emails as I do.

And one of them said, Attara, may your medication bring you

peace, happiness, and bliss.

Another friend, you knew I was coming back when I come back

after I've missed a bunch of weeks.

It's pretty intense.

New I was coming back in the swirl of our culture.

There's that little story about a guy who had returned

from a nine-day, vipassana retreat and went back to his job

at the zoo and seeing how chill he was, you know,

the headkeeper put him in charge of the tortoises.

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