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I don't know if I will get through this recording of the podcast because my daughter has her best friend over and they are having a play date. So, at any moment, one could come running in calling for the mama. But, hopefully I will, because I was thinking about, we are back in Tennessee at our little farmhouse. I was actually cleaning off the salt shaker. It occurred to me how I started thinking about how we were gone for so long because of this whole lockdown pandemic thing. And, I realized that certain things that were out of my sight, I really didn't miss. And when I came back to the farmhouse, it was a lot easier for me to let go of some stuff that I needed to just let go of, like old clothes or clothes that my daughter had grown out of, or things that were just sitting around for no good reason.

And, I have really found that throughout this whole ordeal, if there's anything positive that has come out of it, it's easier for me to simply let go of things quicker, better, faster, and not be so attached to things. Because I thought about how we were removed from a certain place, and we were placed in another place for many months, and it wasn't like we planned to go someplace for six months and I was able to take stuff, and prepare, and bring stuff from here to there, or whatnot. We were thrown into a whole different new normal, if you will. And I hate using that because it seems so kind of defeating to me. So I really try to refrain from using the new normal quote anytime I can. But, I'm just using it for this moment in describing that we were just thrown into something that was new, unplanned, difficult, uncomfortable, inconvenient, at least for me, I don't know about you.

But, I realized now that I'm back and things are slowly but surely kind of easing up to normal, let's just do that, let's speak positive here. Things are kind of easing up. Now that we're back here, I realized, wow, there were so many things that I didn't even think about when I was out in Santa Fe for all those many months. There were things I didn't use, things I didn't need, things that I found out I could live without. I realized, for some reason, today, during my daughter's play date, that yeah, there were things that were removed from my life for a season and I didn't even miss them. So, it's kind of like if they're out of sight, they're out of mind, right? And whereas if I would have planned to go for something for six months, if I would have packed and everything, I would have still come back to the same things, and probably wouldn't have gotten rid of stuff I needed to get rid, of or clean out stuff I needed to clean out.

And I think that's so important for us to do, not only in our physical surroundings every once in a while, but our mental state, our emotional state, our spiritual state. Sometimes we just need to get put back into a place where we once were, and we realize, hmm, I've kind of grown. I realize that certain things, or certain thoughts maybe I used to think, I don't really need to think them anymore, because I'm changed. I've changed for the better, or I've made it through.

And if anything, I just want to encourage everybody that we're making it through. It's still not, and it never will be I don't think, it never will be like it was, but that's okay. I realized the biggest thing was, yes, out of sight, out of mind, but because I've come through this, because we have come through this, because we as people are going through this, and as a world, as a nation, as everything, as business owners, as artists, as moms, as dad's, as parents, as kids even, we're going to come out and we're going to come out better, some way somehow.

I really feel very free in knowing in the fact that I was out of sight, out of mind in certain things, and I'm not bothered by it anymore. It's easy to let go. And I think that maybe somebody else needs this now, and that my season for this was over. And I'm having that as the changing of the seasons are coming around, and fall is coming around on us, and sneaking around on us, summer's pretty much officially over, I'm realizing that there's changing in seasons. And there's changing in myself and my physical surrounding, in my emotional state, my spiritual state, and things I choose to serve in, things I choose to do. And I've learned through this thing, going through these hardships, it's okay, and they don't last forever. What is it? Tough times don't last, but tough people do. Something like that. I think my grandmother said that.

My grandmother, I think about her, she lived through the Great Depression. Everybody has some kind of thing that happened. There's some thing in your life. A lot of people live through World War II. A lot of people served in World War II. My husband has a lot of relatives that have medals and were war heroes. And, it's just amazing to me that I guess I find in this technology age, it's like now everybody's just so, ooh, my gosh, this is happening to me. Whoa, my gosh, it's the lockdown, or whatever. You think about it. Every generation probably has some, the Vietnam War. We all, as generations, have things that we go through. And we go through as a world, or we go through as a nation, or we go through as a people, or people group. It's just that's what's happened, all through history.

I feel like sometimes we think we're entitled to ... I think in the information age what it is, is this. We have so much information, so we instantly feel smarter because of Google or whatnot. And really, I think unless you do a delete and a hard drive reboot in your brain, you just get all too much information in there, and you get information paralysis where you don't know what to do. And, yeah, knowledge is power. I agree with that. However, I think we, in this information age, in the technology age, we seem to have this entitlement of like, oh well, I have so much knowledge. I have so much technology at my fingertips, nothing bad is ever going to happen to me. Or, I shouldn't have to go through this. We shouldn't have to go through this. But, that's just not the case because that's not life. Technology, tools.

My grandmother, I think my grandmother saw the first car come into existence, from a horse and buggy to the automobile age. I remember my grandfather actually having a mule, and still plowing the field with a mule, with his mule. And I remember that as a kid, and I am probably one of the last people of my generation, of Gen X, to have that kind of experience. My husband definitely didn't come for that. But, thank goodness where I was raised, it was about 20 years behind everybody else and we didn't have technology to make everybody aware of things. It was just a very different way of life and I'm thankful for it, because I think it did make me appreciate things. And, like I said, my mother picked cotton. I'm just one generation away from that, so I have a lot of respect for people who work hard and worked the land, because I'm very close to that. Those are my people, so to speak.

But, with technology and with all this stuff we have, and like I said, information, I sense that sometimes, especially during this whole thing we've been going through as the world goes through this thing, it just feels like that we're thinking we don't need to go through any kind of hardships like this. But, for some reason we do. And that's the thing is that, when you do go through the hardship, if you are going through it, it's been very difficult for me, this whole lockdown thing. I really have not been proud of my behavior sometimes, but I made it through. I feel like I guess I'm getting on the other side for some reason. Maybe it's just the changing of the seasons or whatever. It just feels different. Things feel different and they feel different for the better.

I hope this is encouraging. Like I said, outta sight, outta mind. If you have something that you feel like is just hanging around, or like with me, you've had a pantry that needed cleaning, or whatever it is, just go ahead. If it's been out of your sight and you haven't used it, worn it, or seen it in three months, six months, or a year even, then get rid of it. It's an ebb and flow. You get rid of it, you'll get something replaced that'll be even better if you need it. And if you don't, great. You'll get more freedom. You'll feel freer, just like I do.

So, I hope this helps. Well, I guess I made it through. So, I'm going to take this time to say goodbye, because I did get this recorded, and I will see you on the next one. Thanks for joining me.

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