 Hello everyone, I'm coming to you from a place of peace and joy and elation this morning and I'm really excited to say that I am returning to YouTube. Many of you have, I'm sure, noticed that I have not been here a lot on YouTube over the last year or potentially even longer. There's been a lot of videos featuring activists and organizations and people making a very positive impact in society and doing their part to be the change they wish to see and make a meaningful difference in their communities in the world, but there has not been a lot of me on this channel and I know that some of you have been asking, where's Rob? Well, I'm here now and I'm really excited to be here with you every week sharing videos and I wanted to share just a little bit of my journey lately and over the last couple of years I've honestly been just a bit overwhelmed, just trying to do more than I could actually do a lot of the time and I always had this desire to be here with you sharing videos that really help you to be the change that you wish to see, to be coming to the world from a place of peace and making positive change in the world, to shift things in a more regenerative and equitable and just way, and that's exactly what I've been doing the last couple of years, but the reality is I have just taken on a little bit too much and hadn't been able to be present here with you and over the last month I've been taking some days of silence and time alone in the woods and I've consistently been asking the simple question of how do I be of best service to earth, humanity and all our plant and animal relatives and it's come very clearly to me that what I need to do is to simplify, to downsize, something that many of you know me for already but yes I still have more simplifying and downsizing to do and what I'm really being called to is going back to the roots, going back to the basics of what may have brought you to this channel in the first place and for me that is myself being free, coming from a place of presence, of deep presence to be able to share a lot of the illusions that we are living and showing how we can break free and break free to live in a way that's harmonious with this earth, with our plant and animal relatives and with ourselves and so it's been a beautiful transition over the last really couple of years but the last few months of breaking free myself and I've felt some of the deepest presence over the last couple of weeks that I've felt in quite some time and I know that one of the things that I need to do, one of the basic things is sharing messages by writing, by speaking and this is speaking to you through the internet here through YouTube but speaking in person to people on the streets in the gardens together but a big part of that is by sharing the space with you here and so I would love to hear what is it that you would love to see me doing here on YouTube, what would you like to learn about, what inspiration would you like to gain, what topics would you like to see me cover or what would you like to see me doing and I know that I want to be sharing of course what I have been a lot in the field of sustainability, how do we live on this earth in a way that is in harmony with this earth, a lot of that comes through food, growing food, gardening, foraging, simple living, minimalism, living in alternative dwellings like tiny houses and so I know I want to be sharing these things and I want to be sharing my personal connection, how I go about life including being, when I say minimalism, being breaking free from the monetary system and all of the destruction that is tied into that so I will be here at least once a week sharing with you inspiration, education, insights from my experience in life in the last decade of activism and being the change that I wish to see and I'd love to hear what it is that you'd like me to be here sharing in service to you and also maybe if you haven't already an important thing to do would make sure to click the bell to get notifications so that when I do produce a video and it's here that you'll know. So I'm incredibly excited for what is to come, I hope that you are excited as well, I'm really going to be coming from a place of presence and peace and groundedness and balance and hope to bring that into your life in all that we do together so I love you very much and I will see you again very soon right here.