 I'm not sure if I know anymore how to make a video where I don't just have no script but no notes, but I guess they start out, good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. Except it's not Tuesday, it's Sunday night at 11.30. So there's this mountain goat song I love called You Were Cool where the lyrics start out, these are the same four chords I use most of the time when there's something on my mind and I don't want to squander the moment. And I guess these are the same four chords I use most of the time. Eight days ago I found out that one of my close friends from high school died and then the next morning I found out that Dr. Paul Farmer had died and then four days later the 15th annual Project for Awesome began. So this year's Project for Awesome happened amid a global crisis but for me it happened among personal ones as well. It's been a difficult week for me. I hope I don't have a lot of weeks like this in my life. I'm not sure what else to say about it. There's actually this cardboard cutout of me that's just off screen here. I'll show it to you. I don't know if you can see it but it's me. But I'm like my head's by my feet and I'm completely discombobulated and I've looked at that all weekend and been like, yeah, you know, that's about how it feels. I don't know what else to say about it. It's not very interesting. It just sucks when people you love die. It sucks and you wonder what you should have done differently and you wonder how to make sense of a world where they aren't. But mere despair never tells the full human story. Like I am totally unconvinced by any arguments that there is something inevitable or desirable about the inequity and injustice and unfairness of the human condition. And yes, I know that we will all die and everyone we love will die and eventually all humans will die. But for me that makes the fact that we pour love into each other and we experience real solidarity and we work for a better shared future for humanity. That makes all of that more beautiful, more wondrous. The fact that we're able to do that even though we know this is temporary makes it more amazing. And yet it is also true that we are monsters to each other, that we are all capable of monstrosity. And I don't just mean like the active evil of killing people and starting wars. I also mean the passive evil, the ways that evil can be this sort of banal bureaucratic thing where we just pass over human suffering and treat it like it's something inevitable. To me what is so heartbreaking and what leads me toward despair is also where I find hope, which is that there is nothing inevitable about this. When I was a freshman in college, kids were twice as likely globally to die before the age of five as they are today. That is a massive human success story. This year's Project for Awesome raised over $3 million for charity by almost any measure. It was the most successful project for awesome of all time, including by the measure of how hoarse my voice is. The reason I've been overwhelmed with grief this week is because I've been reminded that nothing happens alone, that throughout my life I have had fellow travelers and people expressing real meaningful solidarity with me that made me feel less alone. This weekend during the Project for Awesome I was reminded over and over again of that, that even when we feel alone we never are and that our job as human beings is to make ourselves and others feel less alone and to know that they are accompanied through everything they will go through. All right, for my final chord I want to go back to that mountain goat song. One of the last lines of which is, we held on to hope that better days were coming and when we did we were right. Thank you for an amazing Project for Awesome. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.