WEBVTT - The Privilege to Reflect 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKP Daily with me 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.040 your girl Daniel Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.040 Happy fucking Friday. We have made it to the end 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:28.080 of an extraordinarily tense week here in America. What should 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.880 I cover? Lord only knows, because there's just so much 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.040 I want to start off with this funny enough, you 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.600 know how they say never go to the comment section, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.279 right because when you go to the comment section, you 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.560 know you'll get a lot of hateful things. So the 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.720 other day I decided to go to Apple because I 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.800 wanted to see, like how the show was doing, like 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.520 the ratings or whatever, like how people rate them. And 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.080 so right now on Apple this is where you get 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.720 the show. WOKAF has a four point three out of 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.320 five rating. So first of all, shout out to all 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.399 of the people that take time to do ratings, like 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.640 I genuinely appreciate it, and a lot of content creators 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:19.360 appreciate it. I do not get folks that hate listen 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.760 to shit like time is so precious. The number of 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.959 one star ratings that this show has is wild to me, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.360 because here's the thing, my time, my life is precious. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:39.440 I am not wasting thirty minutes plus listening to someone 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.120 who I can't stand, or watching a show I can't stand, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.840 like it's stupid. So for those people who found themselves 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.400 to wokaf and then took that time to listen to 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.000 the show, decide that they can't stand me, and then 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:59.080 decide to take the extra time to go and write 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.800 a review, go live your life, bool, Go live your life. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.440 Ain't nobody missing you over here. Go live your life right. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.200 Do things that you enjoy, Listen to things you enjoy. Okay, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.760 but again, shout out to those folks who left rave reviews. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.880 I did not read them all, but I genuinely really 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.160 appreciate it, you know, particularly when things are just getting 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.359 tougher and tougher by the day, harder and harder to stomach. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.240 It is good to know that there are people who 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.760 find value in the guests that I have on, who 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.960 find value in the commentary that I offer. It makes 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.920 getting up to do this work each and every day 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.760 worth it, particularly when I find myself down, which I 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:47.560 have been. You know, the holiday season is a mixed bag, 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.880 and it's a mixed bag for a lot of reasons. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.520 Because we I don't know if it's hallmark, if it's society, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.160 if it's capitalism that created the idea that like we 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.359 begin again new January first, and so there's always this 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.919 insane rush to get everything crammed into the last couple 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.880 of weeks of the year that you were in so 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.919 that you can begin fresh in the middle of winter. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.760 If we were to actually be following a new year, 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.360 wouldn't the new year happen in spring and actually follow nature. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.800 So for folks who feel the urge and the need 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.240 to like and this year strong, like, just fucking you know, 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.040 go about your business right, like if you have the 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.080 time off, if you're privileged enough to be able to 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.600 take the time between Christmas and New Year's off, like 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.600 just enjoy yourself, like I don't know, you know, soak 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.480 in a tub, light some candles, you know, do some 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.920 nice stretches, take some walks, cuddle with your animals. What 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:56.240 are some plants? But like this you know, rush and 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.960 urge to like start fresh in the middle of the dark, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.360 to me does not really make any sense. I think 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.360 that more than anything, I like to use, you know, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.520 the end of the year as an opportunity for reflection 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.280 right on, you know, on how things have gone, how 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.919 I am feeling is kind of where I'm choosing to 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.279 ground myself because I find that too often we're so 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.640 busy checking off all of the lists and the boxes 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.440 and all of the money that we need to spend 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.479 to gift people things and all of the things that 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.400 we need to rush and do, and then we need 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.080 to perform like happiness in some instances. And there are 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.160 some people that actually, you know, that are readily happy 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.560 at this time of year. There are a lot of people, though, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.200 that I find that are performing happiness because all of 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.040 the commercials and the jingles and like every fucking you 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.520 know store window is telling you that this is your 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.240 time of year to be in full joy. Goddamn it. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.640 It's always just like a lot of pressure. So I 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.320 just want to tell folks take the pressure off, Like 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.599 you don't need to be all the things and do 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.000 all the things. You can create new rituals, You can 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:14.080 create new traditions, especially for those folks that find themselves 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.520 not with family or friends. Like, there is nothing saying 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:23.160 that you can't create new traditions for yourself. And I 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.200 will offer that for the past couple of New Years 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:33.000 right celebrations I have been here, cocooned in my home, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:38.560 you know, lighting candles, doing yoga, meditating really deeply, and 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.680 just kind of taking stock right of the end of 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.359 the year. And part of that was brought on I 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.279 actually not even part of it. All of it was 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.880 brought on because of COVID, Right, Like, we weren't able 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.080 to gather with people for so many years, and we 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.360 would recognize that during the winter, right there would be spikes, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.559 and so you know, whatever plans you may have made, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.080 you know, would get tossed in the trash. And so 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:11.800 instead of like lamenting about New Year's traditions gone by 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.359 and big parties and all of these things and trying 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.160 to find the place and do the thing, I just 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.800 really created the new tradition of wanting to end the 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:28.440 year solo with myself, you know, and just relaxing, taking stock, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.720 you know, saging, just kind of you know, writing in 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.960 my journal, doing all of these things. And so this 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.039 year I decided that I'm sick and tired of the 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.360 fucking cold. Even though climate change hasn't been that cold 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.320 in New York. We've had some down days, but not 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.880 really And so I'm going away because I decided that 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.120 I wanted to spend the new year in salt water 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.160 and in warmth. So that's what I'm doing for myself 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.080 new tradition alert just decided a couple of weeks ago, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.360 so just going to take a couple of days soa 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.880 can the sea wash away? Twenty twenty three, which was 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.919 a mixed bag, right, Like as all years are, I 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.280 don't think that we ever had a year where one 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.680 is like, oh my god, every single month, every single 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.280 day was amazing. Like, No, what we do learn, I 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.920 think as we age and as we really try and 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.600 unpack all different aspects of our emotions and our trauma 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.200 and our past and our patterns, is how to navigate 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.720 better when things are thrown at you, which they inevitably will, right. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.720 I think that this idea of the perfect life or 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.640 the perfect way to be, or the perfect tree or 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.600 the perfect holiday again just adds in a lot of 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.160 pressure that we don't need because the world is a 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:54.080 pressure cooker enough. That being said, folks, if you are 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.840 feeling again a mix of like I'm really looking forward 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.240 to being with my family and friends, or like, how 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.200 am I supposed to experience joy? 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:04.200 Down? 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.640 You know, when I'm scrolling and I'm seeing such a 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.000 devastation and such lack of humanity and such trauma and 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.920 such violence. What I offer to you is what I 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.280 offer to myself, which is that the virtue of being 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.840 alive in this moment and having the ability to celebrate, right, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.720 to be in joy, is a gift, and so treat 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:25.160 it like that. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:25.800 Right. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.800 It serves no one to marinate yourself in grief and 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.280 think that that is what solidarity looks like. No, your 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.800 resistance can also be soft. Your resistance can also look 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.559 like joy. Your resistance, you know, can look like engaging 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.520 in really thoughtful conversations with your family and friends. You know, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.760 I think to myself often that we would not find 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:54.760 ourselves in this maga driven world right now if we 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:59.520 didn't heed the idea that not talking about politics was 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.200 somehow polite, Right, that not talking about our values and 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.560 our religion and sharing those things with the people that 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.520 are closest to us was somehow polite. It isn't. What 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.360 it does is create distance. What it does is create 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:21.320 gaps that allows negativity and stereotypes and discrimination and prejudice 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.720 to fill up that space. Why not engage in the 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.600 conversations with the people closest to you about the things 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.640 that matter to you the most. And so I want 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.880 to urge people as we are, you know, winding down 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.360 the year and you know, just about I guess you know, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.680 ten days or so away from Christmas, if you're Christian 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:50.679 and you celebrate that that use this time to actually 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.880 talk with your family and friends. Do not turn away 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.839 from hard conversations, and do not just shut down because 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.760 somebody doesn't agree with you. You like, allow there to 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.560 be in exchange. Get off your fucking phones, you know, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.280 and I'm saying that to myself. Get off your phones 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.840 right and talk And frankly, if you find it difficult, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.840 get one of those little conversation starter card games and 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.520 bring that to your cocktail party, to your Christmas dinner, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.160 to you know, wherever, and have people draw, you know, 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.720 draw a card and just like talk with one another. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.960 Put the phones away, put on some music, and just 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.240 engage because it's that it's that kind of connectivity, it's 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.040 that kind of community building. It's that kind of intimacy 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.160 that is what moves our humanity forward and what expands 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.520 our humanity as opposed to shrinking it into a device 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.880 that we are looking to to tell us everything about everything, right, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:11:00.280 instead of just thinking and wondering. Remember wondering right when 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.040 you somebody would ask a tough question or quiz and 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.440 instead of coming up with the answer, it's like the 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.680 answer wasn't really the thing. We just wanted to wonder 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.240 a bit. So in this season that is supposed to 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.680 be about wonderment and joy and magic and all of 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:20.200 these things. Get back to that, and that requires putting 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.360 your phone down and not just getting from A to Z, 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.800 but like wondering about what comes in the middle, and 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.280 you'll be surprised, right, You'll be surprised by it. So 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.120 that's what I am planning to do and focus on 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:45.319 and really try and create new ways of being because 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.600 what I'm finding right as we are living through just 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:59.600 I don't know, some days, impossible times, is our in 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:05.120 ability to connect with one another and to just take 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.040 you know, just shut down and shut off anything that 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.200 we don't like in search of the things that you know, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:18.839 we supposedly will boost our own way of thinking. One 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.319 of the reasons why I love to read so much 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.440 and have an obsession with books right now, and I 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.400 can't help myself from purchasing more. I get sent so 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.280 many books from publishers and literary agents, you know, to 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.120 get authors on the shows. So like I'm always like 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.280 downstairs in you know my I'm always getting like a delivery. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.400 But I also, on top of the books that are 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.360 sent to me, I also purchase an obscene amount because 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.640 I love learning. I love reading. If it's fiction, I 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.920 love discovering new worlds and new spaces if it's nonfiction. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.000 I love the ability to expand my mind and increase life, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.320 like you know, my knowledge base, and you know, I 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:09.079 think about how important and how powerful books are, which 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:14.360 is why there is such a rush to erase everything. Right, 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.560 Like when you see when you need to figure out 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.360 what the opposition finds dangerous, look at the things that 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.200 they're trying to ban, right, look at the things that 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.600 they're trying to control, and then double down on them. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.520 If you're struggling to figure out what to get for people, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.840 don't get them another fucking sweater. Don't get them something 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.360 that they can get themselves. Get them a book, Get 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.640 them a you know, an audiobook or a hardcover book 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.160 or a softcover book. Give them an experience, right like, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.160 give them a journey to take sign them up for 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.320 some podcasts, you know, light plug. But I think that 0:13:53.400 --> 0:14:00.120 if we all had the desire to learn more, to 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:04.760 expand our horizons and not just be told what to think, 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.200 how to act, where to move what matters, we would 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.360 find ourselves in a better place. And so for me, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.000 as I wind down the year, I'm kind of reflecting 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.600 on books that I've read, conversations that I've had, books 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.800 that I'm bringing with me as I decide to end 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.520 the year in salt water. Because I'm really interested and 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.920 curious about humanity right now. I'm also really worried about 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.320 humanity right now, and the best way for me to 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.680 realize to stop worrying is to limit the amount of 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.800 time that I spend on social media and to increase 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.040 the amount of time that I spend reading and writing 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.240 and listening to music and connecting with my friends and 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.160 family and authentic and real ways. I think that if 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:58.160 we were to spend our time doing that, we would 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:03.520 find ourselves less angry, less scared, less filled with anxiety, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:09.040 right because connection is what has us avoid that or 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.560 experience it less. Frankly, why do I say this on 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.640 this fucking Friday? Because I have found myself over the 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.920 last couple of weeks, as many of you have who 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:25.400 have DMed me and tweeted at me, just consumed with worry. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.440 You know, you hear it in the conversations that I'm 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.400 having about poll numbers and like really worrying that Democrats 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.040 and the Biden administration are just going to hand this 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.680 election to Donald Trump because they're not paying attention to 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.480 their base, They're not paying attention to what matters. They're 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:47.520 thinking that how we viewed foreign policy in the past 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.240 is somehow going to be how we move and think now, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.240 and it's not right. I think that a lot of 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:59.720 people are a lot more conscious and aware of what 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.720 are money has gone to do. And while we are 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:09.320 here without you know, universal healthcare, while we are here 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:15.080 without childcare tax credits, while we are here without innovative 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.360 and thoughtful green architectural design that is funded by government, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.840 while we are here, you know, teetering on the brink 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.440 of authoritarianism and fascism, we send billions and billions and 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:37.280 billions of dollars to kill people. You know, I woke 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:43.920 up this morning and I was thinking to myself, the 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:48.040 Biden administration is requested something close to fifteen billion dollars 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:54.800 to aid Israel in their warmongering. They've only pledged one 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:59.000 hundred million dollars in humanitarian aid to Gaza. How the 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.640 fuck does that make sense? It doesn't even make sense. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.639 Like in the math, you spend billions of dollars to 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.240 destroy and one hundred million dollars to rebuild, and how 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:19.240 can you rebuild? They're turning this area, this part of 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.160 the world, Gaza into a graveyard. They have eighty five 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.359 percent of the people are displaced. Half of the people 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:30.080 that have been killed or children and women. You know, 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.280 I know that it's controversial to tell the truth right 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.760 and to share feelings, but like, I'm centered around humanity 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:39.760 and this is not the type of world that I 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.360 want to live in. And I know that like one 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.399 conversation at a time won't fix it, right, But I 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.720 know that not talking about these things, not trying to 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:57.200 understand right, to overstand why we believe that a world 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.720 filled with chaos, fueled by greed and anger and ego 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.359 is it just because it's all we've ever known. And 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.600 that's why I tell us it is time for us 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.080 to rest, so that we can rest our minds and 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.080 our nervous systems and imagine and dream about other worlds 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.119 and other ways of being because how we are being, 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:26.159 how we have been socialized, it's terrible, right, But I 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.320 do know that when you are on the brink of 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.800 birthing something new, there is a lot of pain involved 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.000 in that, and I think that we are in that pain. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:37.679 You know. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.800 I don't know what the other side looks like, but 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.479 I know that we can only control what we can control, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.120 and we can control what we consume. We can control 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.879 the conversations that we have, but not control in the 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:55.359 way to shrink them and to shrink ourselves, but to 0:18:55.480 --> 0:19:01.359 try and understand, to wonder, to expand that needs to 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.919 be our goal. That needs to be the way that 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.040 we want to be and see better is by doing 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:15.480 better ourselves and hoping that that becomes a ripple effect. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.159 So as the year winds down, and you know, and 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.200 I will continue, we're gonna take a break here at WOLLKF, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.600 but we're going to leave you with some amazing episodes 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.320 and conversations and interviews with some of your faves. But 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.800 I too need a break, you know, to wind down, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:41.200 to rest, to dream, to sleep, to imagine what comes next, 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:45.240 because what we've been experiencing is heartbreaking. What we've been 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.639 experiencing is traumatizing, and we don't even allow ourselves a 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.040 moment to reflect on that. No, are we existing with 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:59.240 sirens and bombs raining down, Absolutely not. That isn't our 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.720 current exists, But it doesn't mean that we are not 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.600 traumatized by what we are seeing and what we are consuming. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.840 So just you know, it isn't about flipping the calendar 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.320 year and all of a sudden new year knew me. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.800 It is about, though, having the privilege and the time 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:21.000 to reflect on what has transpired and what you're hoping 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:26.120 to create a new you know, as we begin another 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:31.000 twelve months of the year. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.240 That is it for me today, Dear friends, on this 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:41.960 feel good, fuck it Friday, Please tell me in the 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:46.200 comment section under this Patreon video how you were feeling, 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:51.040 what you are doing, what you need, you know, what 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.960 you're hoping for as this year closed out and we 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:55.399 begin and. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:59.600 New That is it for me, dear friends. As always, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.360 power to the people and to all the people. Power, 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.040 get woke and stay woke as fuck.