 Not a lot of distractions here. It's just pristinely quiet, with possibly the exception of one bird, but That was a great opportunity. Oh, it was, yeah. Oh, and today he was so frantic, David. You know, there's this perch right outside my window. We've all watched the pounding and pecking, but but isn't that like the way it goes in meditation that you You know, you you seem to have to watch the pounding of the thoughts until there's just a sense of total embrace, you might say, or going beyond the idea that that even these thoughts are disturbing peace of mind. So that's the workbook training of A Course in Miracles. You know, the first reminder, as the bird is pecking and pounding and pecking and pounding, is I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. And so first of all, you are allowing those thoughts into awareness and as we came out here to do a Christmas retreat and a New Year retreat, the bird showed up on cue and the pecking and the pounding, it stands out in this monastery setting, because it's just so still that it's the only thing going on in the whole the whole area. 49 acres here that we have and beyond, that's the only thing happening is this pecking and pounding. And then, so you start off with I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts starting to realize that it's not anything in the world that is disturbing my mind or upsetting me, but it's just these thoughts. And then, and then finally you move into Lesson 23, I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. That's the culmination of the first 22 and then the 23 is the culmination of a beautiful cause-effect relationship, that it's only attack thoughts that are upsetting. And that's a grievance. And then, I could see peace instead of this I am Spirit. I am the Holy Son of God Himself. You know, that takes you right into beyond the desperation into the stillness that is really what the desperation is about. And there was this, I will be still an instant and go home, that workbook lesson where it's really an invitation where Jesus says even your childhood home is just a faded memory that really never happened and a distorted faded memory and that there is a child in you, you know, just give him an instant to be himself. He's talking about the Christ child. Just give him an instant. Give allegiance in your mind to the Christ child to be still an instant and go home. He needs your protection. He says in reality the Christ doesn't need protection, but in the workbook training it's like we need to give that Christ idea ascendance in our mind lest we give the attack thoughts ascendance in our mind and therefore seem to be something that we are really not. We feel like an alien lost and desperate to go home. As desperate as that bird is to get inside and really it's such a strong witness to us that really that's really why we're here. That's really what we're doing. We're going inward.