avoid us from those moments.

It's training our minds to polarize us.

We that pink socks have been saying for years that we cannot always control governments and politics.

We can't, but what we can control, what we can control Catherine is how we show up one person at a time, one smile at a time, one connection at a time, one pair of pink socks at a time.

And those little magical moments on the bus or the train or standing in a line, right? That that's our opportunity to stop.

and see one another, see ourselves in the other person, you know, in this ideology of loving kindness, you know, it transcends all political ideologies and geopolitical borders.

Because as you know, when, when we share space, when we hold space with another person and we all crave this, this, this craving to connect with other humans, it's hardwired in our brainstem back here.

With the same teachers throughout the years.

You can leave your socks on.

And it killed them pink socks.

I said, Andrew, just wear blue jeans.

Wear blue jeans and a brew pub t-shirt.

You know, we're not going to go in there, you know, dressed up and I'm going to get a hundred pair of these little pink socks and you put 50 in your little bag.

I'll put 50 in my little backpack and we'll go rolling in there.

And every time somebody comes up and says, hey, what's the story? You know, who are you guys and what's the pink socks? Boom.

Because you're saying that was the subtitle of your book is how a pair of pink socks became a symbol of love and connection.