And so I think for me, just finding some of these deeper aspects and abilities and then learning how to cultivate them and then eventually finding the avenues for them, that gave me so much purpose and meaning.

I'm sorry.

I'm quiet because I'm thinking.

I'm like absorbing all of this.

I...

I'm envious of the time to go out into the forest.

There was a period when it was at its worst, when there just wasn't much I could do.

that is so beautiful

So I asked her to read something from her past.

I was gonna read this very short prose, but I have a poem that I think is [laughs] actually really relevant, so... [laughs] And I, I actually have it memorized, I think.

[laughs] So, um, this is, uh, New Year's Day.

I will not tell you everything will be okay.

I will not tell you love conquers all.

I'm not that kind of liar.

It can be years of not all right.

Please.