Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

So I have been grappling with the Facebook and have not been successful.

I did everything I usually do and it smells fear and then it goes away.

So I'm so excited to be here in the gathering room for all of y'all on Instagram.

And the Facebook, we will post this on Facebook as soon as we are done.

Those of you who are used to Facebook, maybe you could go to Instagram or maybe read a good

book or take a bath.

In the meantime, we've got people showing up.

We've got Laura and Dr. Dawn is here and Gina is here.

And Marcia and Tiffany.

Oh, hello, Rowan, the gracious Badger.

She's here.

Hi, Big Canadian.

And Dawn and Tracy.

It's so great to see you guys.

Thanks for waiting during the fraught minutes that I grappled with the Facebook.

And it can smell when Rowan isn't here also.

Not that she is, no one else can tell by scent if she's here or not, but when she's not here to work her magic,

I once worked with a computer programmer who was trying to teach me to do things, and we would do

things keystroke for keystroke the same, and my computer would like die, and he would do it himself.

Finally, he told me, I'm not joking about this, he told me,

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