All right, it's weekly pep talk time. Hello, how are you? Welcome. It is time for the weekly

pep talk in the case you've never been here for in these before. It's just a five-ish minute

mental nugget for your week. Appreciate you being here for it. My mom got it for you in

a couple of seconds talking about like the way your life is going, you know, like where's

it going? What are we doing with it, right? And I don't know if you're feeling the same

kind of pull, but life's, life's weird, man, it's weird anyway. Hope you have the best

week ever and the weekly pep talk on the way next.

Hello, it's Nancy and I hope that you are having a wonderful day today. I am thinking today

about life and death. Thinking about death because yesterday was the one year anniversary

of my brother's death who died in a car accident due to a heart attack. The really miraculous

news of that was that he did not have an ounce of blood or a scratch on his body nor was

anyone else harmed in that accident. And so we are comforted by the thought that he died

before his car crashed. So that's comforting to know. But then I'm also thinking about

the other people I've lost in my life, my mother, my father, my other brother, and now

I'm losing my friend, Joel. And it's interesting how, you know, death is a part of life. We're

all going to die and we all have one life to live. You know, I just, I think about the

ways that my family members have died and how my brother's life seemed cut a little short

because he was 63 and for all intents and purposes seemed to have a good part of his life

left. My dad was 17, died of a stroke, died with a friend at home. That was also a beautiful

death because he did not suffer. My mother died a long death with uterine cancer in the

late 70s. And that was quite traumatic for all of us. But I think now in reflection on that

and of course having a con the therapy about it that I realized that one reason that it was so

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