You do need to sign up for Substack, and then let me know what email you use to sign up for Substack, and we'll hook you up.

And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [chuckles] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

... and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

[music] Welcome to Daily Bread for Kids, a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year, helping young Bible readers to study God's Word while also discovering its Jewish context.

Hi, my name is Anya and I will be your reader today.

Today is Friday, the fifteenth of May, which is the twenty-eighth of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar.

Today is Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, and today in history, the day Samuel the Prophet died, according to tradition, see 1 Samuel 25 verse 1.

Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day.

In 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel's paratroopers recaptured the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

This morning, the Israel Defense Forces liberated Jerusalem.

[uplifting music] Welcome to Daily Bread for Kids, a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year, helping young Bible readers to study God's Word while also discovering its Jewish context.

[whistles] Hi, my name is Anya, and I will be your reader today.

Today is Friday, the 1st of May, which is the 14th of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar.

Today is Pesach Sheni, the second Passover, and today in history, King Hezekiah and all Israel celebrated Pesach Sheni for 14 days.

See 2 Chronicles 30:1.

Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus celebrated Pesach Sheni.

They did the good deed of burying Yeshua, but it made it impossible for them to eat the normal Passover offering because of ritual impurity.

You do need to sign up for Substack and then let me know what email you used to sign up for Substack and we'll hook you up.

And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [laughs] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

... and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

You do need to sign up for Substack and then let me know what email you use to sign up for Substack, and we'll hook you up.

And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [chuckles] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

in Baja California and, uh, and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

It's a related topic, this question of the energy.

Yeah.

Well, uh, and maybe this is, like, an oversimplification, but when I was watching the film, I felt, and I said this last night, like, it felt extremely rel-relatable.

Um, and I feel like mimicked a lot of conversations that Chris and I have had or tried to have.

Um, and I've definitely went through a period of my life at the same time that it seems Dulcéne did, where I probably, had I gone to a psychiatrist, probably would've been diagnosed as bipolar as well, [chuckles] um, because it was extreme, and I was going through periods of, like, mania and depression, and sometimes those things were happening simultaneously or happening one right after the other.

And then I feel like in my life, maybe prior and since, that those qualities still exist, just in a less extreme way.

Um, and we have a close friend who we spend a lot of time with in, in Crestone, and I feel like the two of us relate very much in these sorts of extreme states of talking for 30 minutes without, you know, uh, interruption or, um, having emotions, extreme emotions that come out of nowhere, and we can't figure out necessarily, like, if they were provoked or if they were using something external to excuse the fact that they were already there internally.

Right

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And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [chuckles] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

... and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

[squeak]

Squirrels, they have disrupted the mainframe more than hackers have.

[laughs]

Of all the hundreds of species of squirrels that exist out there, like flying squirrels and multicolored squirrels, like the ones from India where Anya's mom is from, it turns out there's a squirrel that lives up in the Arctic and spends its winters under the snow getting so cold that, according to Anya, its flesh turns into a kind of popsicle or popsquirrel [laughs].

Because they, um, have this thing that helps them change their body temperature when they're underground.

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And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [chuckles] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

... and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

I'm a squatter.

Uh, yeah, I mean, I think we ha- we traveled a lot.

I mean, both of us have traveled individually, um, and then traveled a lot when we were together.

For me personally, I feel like I really love traveling, but I find it after some time to be a bit anxiety producing if I don't feel like I have somewhere to go back to.

Uh, and like the endless switching of mattresses and polyester sheets and like uncomfortable this and uncomfortable that just gets really old.

Um, and so it's really nice to be able to go home to something.

I will say traveling in the van makes that a lot easier because we're essentially traveling with like a miniature version of our home, so we have a lot of creature comforts.

... that's satisfying.

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And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [chuckles] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

... and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

You do need to sign up for Substack and then let me know what email you use to sign up for Substack, and we'll hook you up.

And then, uh, yeah, you can participate in these Aromas, which is basically Anya crashing Chris' Romas [chuckles] as we travel into Mexico and commiserate about the state of the world, uh, and have lots of interesting and philosophical and, um-

in Baja California and, uh, and other parts of Mexico for the next couple of months.

So if you're feeling confused and overwhelmed and alone, join us.

We initially discovered the lump about a month before my scheduled due date

dateAnd the baby being born early and her having the needs that she did, of course, pushed any of mine off to the wayside.

We just had our second round of chemo out of the sixteen scheduled treatments, but we're praying through all of it, and I know God has us, and I know that I will do whatever it is that I can to make sure that I'm here for my kids and my family.

but not fully out of the woods yet.

That is correct.

But we're fighting every day.

We are gathering our strength.

If it takes it, you know, day by day, step by step, that's what we're doing.