Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world. My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery. Welcome to the final episode of Season 4. We're here. We've made it. It's the end of the year, almost. Almost, yeah. And what a time to be alive. Absolutely. Isn't it?

It's a great time to take stock, don't you think?

And think about all the achievements you've made over the last 12 months.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's a really nice time to sit back and look at what has happened over the past 12 months.

I know for us and for a lot of people it's been a big one.

But I am kind of a bit conflicted about taking stock in a, like through a positive lens at the moment because, I mean, we're recording this a little bit ahead of time and the eastern seaboard of Australia is on fire and there's a

huge amount of anxiety around, you know, well-deserved anxiety around the environment and the role

that our government is playing or not playing in, you know, protecting it.

Okay, so that brings me to the first question of the podcast.

Do we deserve to be happy?

Yes, but the, damn, like easing in.

Yeah.

Don't throw me in the deep end of everything.

In the intro, you know, just.

Exactly.

Pre-p music even.

Don't bury the lead, Ben.

You know what?

I have been thinking about this a lot.

And I think that gratitude and reflection and positive reflection is really important

because what it brings to us as individuals is maybe a perspective, groundedness, centredness,

that allows us to be of service to people who aren't in a position to be able to do that

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