 Hi, my name is Danny, and welcome to Esoteric Moments. I am back finally. Sorry for the delay in posting videos. I am doing this video as a quick update. It has been probably a bit over a month since I posted a video, and I apologize for that. There have been a few changes happening, and I wanted to share those with you. So the first change is of course it is going from fall to winter, and that is a time of year that I really enjoy kind of being inwards and focused on myself, so it can be harder for me to do things that involve like talking out with people or posting on social media. So while I love the engagement and I'm working really hard on being more consistent here on YouTube and just in how I engage with friends and family in general, it's a little bit of a struggle as the sun kind of you see less of it. The other big change has been with family stuff. My parents are living on a farm and as my dad's an agronomist and my mom's a horticulturalist, they have some seed pursuits that they've been working on for decades really, but in the last two years had focused in with a new partner trying to get this out into the world in a new way. Well as businesses kind of evolve, this one has evolved where they are leaving the partnership and I don't want to go into tons of details, but it's been a very stressful few months getting the legal paperwork through for them and helping them figure out what they want to do next. This was a really tough relationship for them and they wanted so badly for their life's work really to get out into the world and make a difference. They believe so strongly in what they do that this setback is intense and kind of hard. The relationship with them and their partner had gotten pretty interesting. We'll go with interesting. It obviously wasn't working so this will be a good thing that they're moving on to new endeavors and all of that, but legal stuff is never fun and it's always kind of stressful even if you have a great lawyer, which they did. So that's changed and it also means they have to move an entire farm by December 31st. So Brad and I have been helping clean the barn and you know pack things and get things tidied up. So any energy you can send my parents way for like new beginnings and strong starts, I would be so appreciative with that. We also wrapped up the end of community garden season. So Wisconsin where we are kind of in the central Wisconsin, south central Wisconsin, the last frost free date is November 15th on average. So gardens close in the middle of November and that for our gardener can tend to be pretty low key. It's just like putting your bed to winter and you know composting any last things, maybe making sure that you harvest and dry your last herbs or that you keep the kale from the frost at night. But for a leader, it's a little bit more involved. We in both of the gardens I'm involved in try to evaluate whether we met our goals at the beginning of the year and how we can be more accessible and open to people in our community, what we need to really like focus on for the next year. So we have all of this like organizing stuff with closing day and then quickly how do we make next year great and that takes time and energy. So my goal is to be a little bit more consistent through the winter and I have some very exciting video ideas that I hope to get done. For Yule, I would really like to put together kind of a pagan Wiggy Yule playlist like I did for the pagan perspective. I did this video where I did like sounds or ritual. I kind of want to do that but for Yule and maybe the other Sabbaths if it goes well. So look forward to that and of course more book reviews. Thanks for sticking with me and I hope to see you soon. Thanks for watching and as always may you find peace in the sacred grove. Today I have a book review for you that's fitting for October. It is The Journey Into Spirit by Christopher Hughes. So it's a pagans perspective on death, dying and bereavement. This is an interesting take on death for a couple reasons. So the author is someone who has actually worked in a morgue in mortuary. His whole professional life is about grief and how we deal with death.