WEBVTT - A Force of Nature 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.360 Welcome to Insider's Guide to the Other Side, a production 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:09.280 of iHeartRadio. Hi, y'all, I'm Julie. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.320 Hi there, I'm Brenda. Welcome to Insider's Guide to the 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:13.920 Other Side. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.880 Now, y'all need to know that we are obsessed with 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.000 everything on the other side. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.800 Yes, we are, because once you learn to navigate the energetic, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.880 or to some the invisible world, life is going to 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.600 be more fun and much more serene. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.479 Uh heck, yes it can, because let's be honest, for 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:36.600 in Earth school is hard. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.080 In fact, you taught me that let's crush Earth School together. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:48.720 Well, hello, my witchy, oh pooh, my hair looks like shit. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.600 How about you. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:56.880 Nice? This is why we don't do audio or video. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.560 This is right, so we don't have to worry about it. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.000 It's not It is the worst ever. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.480 It's just blending into your background, that's all. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.400 I don't know what. No, it doesn't we're to god, No, wait, 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.399 we're I literally look like the greasert that stands in 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.720 front of the liquor store. And I don't know how 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.199 it happened, but it did, and only Brenda can enjoy 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.039 it today. Okay, so now we can get on with 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:20.440 our show. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:30.119 Yeah, here's so funny. Excellent, excellent. Okay, so today we're 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.200 talking about nature. One of the biggest forces, one of 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.240 the biggest spirit we have on the planet, right, is 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.679 this incredible force of nature. So I'm so excited you 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:47.440 brought up this, uh, you know, idea to share because 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.160 you recently had a very powerful experience with nature. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.960 Right, I totally did. And you know what. I what 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.840 was so I think moving about it for me and 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.760 for Suzanne was sometimes we forget and stop to stop 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.800 and smell the roses. Right. We've all heard that at age, 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.320 which is stop and smell the roses. And it's not 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.280 all stopping by your house and sniff and you because 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.680 I know you're rose, but it's in general that to 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.720 do that. And so we had this incredible experience that 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.120 just wanted to share it with everyone because we hope 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.880 Brendan and I hope that this is something you know 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.720 that we have these episodes sometimes that are more reminders 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:37.520 of about being here, being a spirit in a human body, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.120 and this is one of them. So we went to 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:46.560 Los crusis our new backyard, meaning New Mexico, one of 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.760 the most unpopulated states by the way, it's amazing. If 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.760 you don't like humans, move here. Uh, And we went 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.480 down to Los Crusis too, is a Pecan festival, because like, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.000 couldn't we couldn't be any more boring than that. But 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.720 on the way home home, we stopped at White Sands 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:09.520 National Park. And if anybody is unfamiliar, White Sands is 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.400 in an area called the Permian Basin. You've probably maybe 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.040 heard of the Permian Basin because that's where a lot 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.560 of oil is being drilled right now, we don't have 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.880 to celebrate it. It's just a fact and it'll eventually 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.840 run out, so no generational never even mention it again. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.680 And a part of this that the Permian Basin was 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:35.200 once a shallow sea, and so White Sands National Park 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.600 is the bottom of that shallow sea that is covered 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.760 in white gypsum sand. And it feels different than if 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.640 you go to a regular beach, like if you go 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.520 beach of California, Mexico, Florida, wherever, it doesn't feel this way. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.680 It's and gypsum is actually you know, in the kind 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.880 of in the crystal Kingdom. When that's probably why I 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.160 liked it so much, right yeah, right, of course, right 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.840 is crystal so there we go. So it was interesting 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.720 because it takes up I think about two hundred and 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.920 twenty five square miles of this kind of desolate area 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.760 which is in New Mexico. It's huge. It is just 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.960 a bit south of Alamagordo. There's a naval base there. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.240 Just f y eyed everybody. And you start driving in 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.479 and you see these like dunes. Actually, as you're driving 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.200 toward it, you see, because there's a bit of wind, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.640 you see this like kind of white cloud that's around it. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.719 And Suzanne said, it's windy, there's white sands right there, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.640 because there's this like cloud of sand, this kind of 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.160 misty cloud of sand over it. So it was really like, oh, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.840 that's exciting. Like I'm already excited. We're not even there, right. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.040 So so you start driving in and the first thing 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.359 I do is ask Suzanne. I'm like, give me some history. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.560 Like I get all excited and it's like I need 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.440 to know everything about this place. So drive and you 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.880 see all these sand dunes, but they have they have 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.120 vegetation that's growing on them, and how you get that's 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.600 the beginning of it. And then as you get drive in, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.359 I'm not joking you, it is all white, and it 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.400 looks like you're in a snowstorm, like there is there's 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:22.000 no vegetation. It is all white, and it is like 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.680 you're on another planet. And so naturally Suki comes into 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.640 play because she's with me all the time. And so 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.600 we find this area in ps There is a leash 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.400 law there, or a leash recommendation. I'm not sure how 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.719 lawful it is. We did not follow it. So we 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.520 found this place where there were not other humans, and 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.839 right Rote and like Rebel, who is white, practically got 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.320 lost in it. We kept saying, where's Rebel, where's Rebel? 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.880 She was like a ghost in the white sands of 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:56.120 it all. And and Souki black on white. She is 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.160 off leash. And if anybody checks out my instagram, you'll 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.159 see photos of her from this, from this magical moment, 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.400 and she is running up and down these. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.080 She she looks like she's laughing the entire time, and 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:12.000 she was. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.200 It was in like her joy brought me joy, that 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.039 brought Suzanne joy, and I have a feeling Rebel was 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.599 on the joy kind of staircase as well. And it 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.000 was just that moment and when we're in there, in 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.400 this other world, we're like, man, the earth is incredible, 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.919 like wild incredible. And then and then there's always in 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.680 and then and then what happened was really interesting. It's 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:45.360 kind of funny how we got there is we had 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.479 to go to Albuquerque, so we had to take a 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.040 different way home, and the reason why we had to 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.680 pick up our Costco cards just FYI just add a 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.880 little color to the whole story. So what happened is 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.560 that we had to take this other highway to go 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.680 back to the to the Interstate twenty five. And on 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.280 this way, I see these signs called a Valley of 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.359 the Fires, and I'm like, what the hell is Valley 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.800 of the Fires. Had no clue, So we're keep driving 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.720 and Susanne's like, look at all it's kind of dark, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.040 like maybe it's a place there's been a forest fire. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.680 And I'm like, why would they have a sign? Like, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.360 So we go through this whole debate of like of ignorance. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.400 It's like the circle of stupidity happening. And so we 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.440 get to it and we're like, oh my god, this 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.280 is a lava field. There's this lava field out in 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.720 the middle of nowhere called the Valley of Fire. And 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.160 of course, like once we had internet because it was 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.000 the SOS zone because there was literally the middle of nowhere. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.440 And so when Suzanne looks it up because of course 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.120 I'm driving, so it's illegal to do that. That law followed, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:52.560 just on the leash law, and so we are so 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.200 we are. So Suzanne's reading all this to me, and 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.680 she goes, this is insane. It's considered like one of 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.640 the youngest lava flows in the United States. And I 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.080 don't know if they wrote that before after Mount Saint Helens. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.600 And I also don't know if there was lava through 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.720 Mount Saint Helens when that went in. Was it late eighties, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.840 But there's all this beautiful lava flow, Like if you 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.880 go to Hawaii and you see the dark lava that's 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.200 the young lava. And you see like little faded brown 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.520 that's the old lava. This was black lava rock. And 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.160 I'm like, where did it come from? There's no mountains here. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.840 And then she answered, there was this small mound that 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.320 blew like a volcano, like a mound, not a mountain, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.040 a mound because there were no like in the in 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.640 the area there. It's in a valley. There was no 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.680 place because the first time it must be a fisher. Anyway, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.560 I'm getting off crack a lot because it was so 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.400 exciting and fascinating, interesting, and we got confused, but it 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.720 was we were in a whole nother world and we 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:56.400 forgot like all the day to day problems. We stopped 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.760 and smelled the roses and and completely and utter enjoyed 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.720 every single moment of what would normally be like a 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:05.760 rotten drive home. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.880 You know, I love that you kind of you had 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:15.199 the water right with the shallow lake their sea bed right, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.920 and you had the fire from the lava. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.079 You we discoverment, we. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.080 Have the elements, right. It's just so interesting. Yeah, And 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.040 to be, first of all, to be fascinated by your 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:35.640 own backyard, relatively speaking, is such a wonderful experience. To 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.520 reconnect with the magic that's always available, right, just the 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.720 fact that we're on this amazing planet and we can 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:50.360 find things and discover things and just celebrate them like 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.480 we may not all experience them. To the ecstasy that 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:55.719 Sookie had. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.040 I think it was the greatest ever life, right, I know, right. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:05.719 It's so so happy, so happy, but just realizing the 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.360 magic and and taking a moment to take it in 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.839 and be present with it is like it resets our 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.480 nervous system, it inspires us. It's it's truly. I think 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.280 what the word all was, you know, is the perfect 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:21.079 use for like. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.439 It was invented that that was invented for that day. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:25.280 Yeah, it was. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.319 So let's take a quick break because we're going to 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.120 keep talking about the forces of nature and we'll be 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:43.520 right back. Okay, y'all, we're back. And since I took 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.840 up the entire first section, I'm just talking about my 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.439 bliss on the planet that I'm going to hand it 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:51.840 over to my WICHI boo poo. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.079 No, thank you, thank you. Well, I just I mean, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.559 I get excited about this when I think about, like, 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.120 as I said, the planet, there's so many inspiring places 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.680 and experiences to have that we get to travel to 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:09.560 and explore. And also when we think about our you know, 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:15.840 personal experiences like when we were growing up, we had 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:21.080 trees that we climbed. We had lilac bushes that you know, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:25.200 I personally had a relationship with in peeny bushes. You know, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.520 this one was this and you know, like across the backyard, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:34.040 like you have personal relationships with for instance, one of 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.160 my I like, you know, I have in my work. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.800 I sometimes have to do openers or icebreakers or things 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.360 like that, and I like asking people tell me about 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.959 your personal relationship or what's your favorite tree or what 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.240 how did you have a personal experience of a tree? 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.320 And oftentimes people will talk about climbing trees right, or 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.800 how trees right, like oh, I used to hide here, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.040 or you know the way that the trunk split. I 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.720 could sit in there and read, or you know, like 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.080 they would have personal experiences. And even when we talked about, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.160 you know, discussing this topic, I had to run and 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.360 get my picture of my tree. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.040 Right story, she actually got a photograph of her tree. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.600 It's framed until it's on my desk. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.880 You know, did you did you climb that tree or 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:23.320 just sit underneath it? No? 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.320 I never climbed this tree because it's so tall and 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.840 it's so magnificent. But we would would, you know, go 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.640 way out in the past the cornfields into the woods 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.520 and beyond and then that that's where that tree was. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.240 And so when we were far away from home, we 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.200 would we would go into that tree and my brother 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.880 and I would do this, and so it's just this 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.000 magical tree. We could lean up again sort of stare 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.320 up at and it was this giant, giant maple tree 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:53.160 that was amazing. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.600 It's it's me if I've ever craw climbed a. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.120 Tree, I'm sure you climb to tree. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.040 Not a single one, and I'll tell you exactly why. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:03.680 Wow. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.040 Oh, I was that kid with short legs. I could 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:11.960 never like get yeah, shorty legs, long trunk, and so 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.320 never climb them. But still had fate. Well, our trees 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.600 at home when I grew up, where willow were weeping willows. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.800 But the tree that is in my heart and my 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.360 soul is that I know. I've talked about the olive 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:31.000 tree that we had in Sherman Oaks that during the 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.920 one of the mini droughts that we had when we 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:38.160 lived there, I would go capture gray water from the 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.199 shower so you know, to heat up the water instead 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.959 of going down the drain. I captured one of those 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.920 big five gallon buckets. And my goal was to keep 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.840 olliver alive during the droughts. And the droughts were years long. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.440 It wasn't like a week, they were years. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.719 Yeah really yeah, But. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.720 It's it's a comment to keep things alive. And so 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.480 when I went back to La I don't know a 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.559 month ago, whenever it was, I had so many people 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.600 I wanted to see, but I made a trip out 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.200 there because I wanted to go see all over and 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.600 he's thriving and he looks amazing and it just brought 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.520 me joy. Right, that's. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.480 Yeah, it's it's actually amazing. And again to have these 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.720 like one of my favorite trees climb was on my grandparents' property, right, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.320 so that was when my father. That was a maple 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.800 tree too, but it had a it it just had 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.920 a different configuration where the trunk split lower so my 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.240 brother could boost me up and then I could climb. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.240 Would boost yes with him. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.520 Well, I would also say that getting down was a 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:56.080 little dicey, but I took my chances. Yeah, it was fun. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.720 And so like just to have these experience and people 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.240 have their experiences like oh there was a tree once 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.840 and or there was a tree where I saw faces 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.720 or you know, trees would talk to me and you 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.040 know people, you know, in even professional settings, people will 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.880 tell these stories. Or I would sleep under this tree 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:22.520 or you know, or I would play music under this tree. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.800 Like people have these different stories, which is kind of 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.320 fun to listen to. And no one asks them about it, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:29.480 you know, and that's crazy. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.680 It's like it's it's everybody can participate. And the other 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.680 one is like bodies of water or streams or lakes 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.320 or things, especially as from the middle of the country 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.600 we didn't have oceans, and but but they all like 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.360 I have stories about those too. We used to catch 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.120 tadpoles and lot them, like you know, it's it's the 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.520 it's nature, right, and like as a kid, you have 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.360 that wonder right, it's like, oh my god, look at 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.000 that magnificry. Oh my god, look at that that you know, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.920 that mountain or that or that streams, like that's awesome. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:08.000 And people they will also take that personal experience of 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.560 you know, whether it's a flower or an animal as species. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:18.280 Like also you know, in that nature realm, whether like 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.400 I would run into turtles even though we weren't we 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.320 didn't live near water. Actually yeah, like I would run 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.840 into turtles. So it's like one of my early totems. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.880 You know, if we were out walking when it was 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.800 dark and I'd be, oh my god, don't step on 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.480 the turtle, and they're like, what are you talking about, 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.680 And of course we had flashlights because it was dark dark, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.600 like we didn't we didn't have we didn't have street lights, right, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.240 you know, we we were not in the city at all. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.720 And they're like, how did you see that. I'm like, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.080 I don't know, you know, but I didn't say be 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.400 as it told me. Don't step on me, girl. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:53.320 What hair? 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.040 Don't step on me? You know. So you know, so 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.800 people will have their their little signatures. Oh that's my 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.680 or it's you know, or it's a deer, or it's 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.879 something like you talked about. Suzanne has hummingbirds. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.679 Oh my god. She sees every hummingbird in like a 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.720 mile radius. It's the craziest thing. Even funny thing is 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.359 when we were leaving White Sands, of course I had 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.240 to stop at the gift shop and buy some cop 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.360 and buy some mugs. And when we pulled up, she goes, oh, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.679 look at that hummingbird. I go, what? And it was 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:27.120 on like a branch and it had the same colors 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.600 of the branch. I go, it's trying to disguise itself. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.280 How the hell did you see that? I'm like, it's 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.440 her thing. She loves it. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.880 Yeah, yeah, And they're so tiny when they're still, they're 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:38.720 so tiny. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.440 I don't know how she did it, but like it's 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.080 her thing, you know, an that's a funny thing that's happening. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.359 And I think it's a little bit about like this 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.520 kind of for us. I think we're going through a phase. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.240 If you guys hear that it's sicky scratching just FYI 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:59.320 she itchy today that that at our new house, we're 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.040 going to have a go and I and Susanna and 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.879 I both talk about when we're growing up in the 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.199 gardens that we had that we ate from, Like my 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.679 mom had a garden next to the side of the 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:13.359 house and she grew tomatoes and cantalopes and whatever the 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.120 hell else and it cucumbers. Of course, lots of jokes 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.400 in my house because we're completely inappropriate, and it's true. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.520 Is this true? It's just true. I can't lie. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:23.960 It's true. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.240 And so we are talking about how we want to 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.880 bring that back into our life and how we want 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.720 actually grow some of our own food. I want to 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.199 grow ginger root and turmeric so I can juice it 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.479 and you know, pull stuff off of a you know, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.360 of a or dig it up or pull it off 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.600 of a plant and go in and eat it, you know, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:43.960 make it. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.840 I would I also say, you know sometimes like in 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.520 our we grew a lot of vegetables as well, and 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.680 you know, out in the country, and the one thing 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.720 we could do was plant strawberries because my mom's like, no, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.480 I had to pick strawberries when I was a kid. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.119 I've never never having strawberries. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.479 We had strawberries. My mother loved it. We've only had 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.639 plant of what my mom liked because it was we 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.040 had BlackBerry bushes where I had like cuts and I 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.679 probably still have scars on my hands from that stuff. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.199 But yeah, it is. It's like it's those things you 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.520 remember and those are not one of them are a 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:20.240 bad memory. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.560 Yeah, well the strawberries were. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:24.960 Your Yeah, we would. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.480 We would tease her about it, right, So it was 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.320 it was a playful joking, but we didn't trust trust me. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:37.679 We did not have strawberries. But yeah, larious again. So 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.080 we just invite you to think about, like, what are 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:46.760 your nature anchors guides? How do you interact in and 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.200 you know, receive messages or blessings or guidance like, hey, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.080 I'm on the right path here, whatever it is you're 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.919 thinking about, whatever it is you're contemplating, how do you 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.320 get these messages from the greater spirit of our planet. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.840 So and how our animals respond because we had coreel on. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.840 She talked about doing floral blends to help animals be 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.040 more comfortable and to be more like connected to themselves 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:14.840 because they're so connected to the earth. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.520 Exactly. Yes, yes, yes, yes, she works with the word's remedies, 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:22.159 soat she does. All right, So we're gonna be right back. 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:35.000 We're gonna take a quick break, yes, right time, and 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.320 welcome back. So thank you. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:39.119 I haven't done that in a while. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:45.679 Thank you, thank you for thanking me. So in this 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.760 last section, I want to talk about, you know, how 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.480 we can engage, right, how do we initiate, how do 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.800 we engage, how do we approach these nature spirits? How 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.280 can be respectful? How can we leverage their magic, their 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.840 gifts idents? And just take a look at that, because 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.080 that's something that's our world's moves so fast, there's so 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.600 much on our plate every day. Sometimes this is not 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:13.120 something that we slow down enough to do. So that's 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:13.960 what I want to talk. 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:15.800 So I have a confession. So can I just start 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:20.440 with my confession and my big lesson? And I think 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.480 it will help kind of like really put a cherry 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.119 on top of this conversation. And it's weird because I 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.159 normally don't have shame about things, but I actually do 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:32.680 about this story because it's so not who I am 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:35.960 today and I don't even recognize who that was. And 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:42.760 you were there, and you were there, because it really isn't. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:44.360 But I'm going to say it because I think it's 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.439 important for people, especially parents, because I think in some 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:48.919 ways I was a child when I did this, but 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:54.520 even though I was forty three. So, Brenda, do you 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:56.560 remember when you were in You and I were on 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.640 the Universal Studio a lot and we were meeting your 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:07.000 friend Kate Flannery there and there was a tree that 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.680 we walked by and somebody had carved like initials or 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.480 carved something on that and I reached down to go 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:15.760 grab like a rock to go carve something. You said, 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.560 don't you dare you grab my hand? Not do that? 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.760 And you said, no, we don't do that. We do 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.199 not treat or trees. They feel that we don't do that. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.760 And I will tell you as shameful as I am 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.719 in that moment, because I am so a completely different 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:37.560 person than I was then, that absolutely that moment changed 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:41.200 how I looked at the world of nature, how looked 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.720 at our world, and how I behave in that world 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.800 now than I did then. And I'm grateful for the 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:53.639 lesson because it completely changed me. So thank you and 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:54.280 shame on me. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:58.720