 In my last decade and a half of traveling the Earth and traveling what we call the United States, I've seen a lot of change. I'm still young, but I'm old enough to have seen a fair bit of change. I've come back to quite a few places that have been destroyed. I've come back to quite a few trees that I eat from that are gone. And I've come back to quite a few patches of land that I had connected with that are paved over. And we are definitely on a consumer path right now. A path of consuming this very Earth that gives us life. And I can feel it. I'm here in Boston on the side of the road. I was just heading out of town and I came across this beautiful hen of the woods. My talky as I was riding past in the passenger seat. And I couldn't help but of course stop and harvest this beautiful mushroom that is my food and my medicine. And I wanted to share a thought with you and a lot of us feel, we feel the doom and the gloom of the times that we're in. That the Earth can't support us the way that we are destroying this planet. And often many of us are depressed but I want to share something that keeps me going. And that is how resilient I have seen this Earth to be. Amongst all of the destruction I am amazed at the nature that still exists. With this dominator culture doing its best to pillage and destroy, the oak still stands and the my talky still here on this roadside. Presenting to us this food and this medicine and it's here and it's waiting for us. Whether we find it or not, whether we know it or not, it is here. And it is beckoning us back to connect with it and to take care of it. And yes, we live in a polluted world. And a lot of people would say, but Rob, how can you harvest this mushroom from the side of the road? But I've made an agreement with the Earth. I'll take care of the Earth and the Earth will take care of me. I don't have anything to worry about. I'm living presently and deeply connected. The medicines and my foods, they come from this Earth. Sometimes from a place that may be polluted. Yes, there's some pollution here. But through living this deep connection to the Earth, my body is resilient. It can handle it just like this Earth is so incredibly resilient. And I said that nature, that I'm amazed at how nature is here, still thriving in so many pockets of this world. And of course, I just want to say that we are nature. We have this tendency to disconnect ourselves. Look at this. Every person driving by right now is so disconnected from this food and this medicine and this power in these trees. But here it is. And we are nature. And all we got to do is step out of these cars and step out of these suits and fancy clothes and this consumer culture and return to Earth. That's what I chose to do 10 years ago. And that's what I'm going to continue to do more and more. And you'll find me in some places that you wouldn't expect because I'm still going to be immersed in community. I'm still going to be immersed in the society as I am here as a messenger to Earth to change our destructive oppressive ways. So in the meantime, you'll find me on the side of the road, finding my foods and medicines. Sometimes I'll be deep in the woods and sometimes I'll be right here. So I just really wanted to share this message with you. I love you all so much and I encourage you to reconnect with Earth, reconnect with yourself, reconnect with your community and do it over the love and the joy for what we have left and what we can continue to hold to and to protect. This, this is my medicine right here. Not only the food and medicine that I will get from eating this and making tea, just the medicine that I'm feeling right now through the connection to this, to the Earth, to the oak, to the mushroom, to the air, to the sky, to the water that brought this life. Thank you, Earth. Thank you, thank you, Earth. I love you.