BONUS: Next guest plus Canada Wildfires!

Today I took a wellness walk and it's interesting because right now there's an advisory, there's an advisory, there's an air quality advisory for the Finger Lakes right now.

And it is because there are some terrible fires happening in Canada.

And it's really, really upsetting because people are losing their homes and their livelihoods.

And indigenous communities who've stewarded those lands from time immemorial are finding that the fires have devastated so many of their ancestral lands.

So when the air quality is not so great, that means that depending on the wind direction, the smoke can travel very far.

And, you know, that's another example.

That's another example of how interconnected we are.

biodiversity is that is another example of how what happens there affects us here even if we don't directly feel it it affects us so we think so we need to really make sure that we are continuing to follow What is happening? And we need to also be very present to listening to people who represent communities on county, municipal, state, national, international levels.

to make sure that lawmakers are engaging in evidence based, science oriented research to help us bring about a better world that is ready for the effects of climate change.

So like even in Rochester, New York, the state of New York issued an air quality advisory for Western New York and the Finger Lakes because of the smoke from the wildfires burning in Canada um so what what that means is uh kiddos elderly and those with asthma or heart disease are most at risk from wildfire smoke so today when I took my wellness walk I wore a mask because I am an asthmatic and um I have asthma.

My father has asthma.

My son, who is in heaven, had asthma.

So some of us have to deal with that.

I have to have an asthma pump and things like that.

But I also have to get outside.

I also have to get outside because I have to feel the beautiful resonances of nature because it makes me feel contented and it makes me feel like I can go about my day with intention and with a renewed, resilient intention.