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And so we've gone to several different communities around the country, Chicago, New Orleans, Oakland, and then here in Weizberg in Letcher County, Eastern Kentucky. Caregiving is what we've been talking about here in Letcher County. We're talking about jobs. We're talking about access to healthy food. We're talking about immigration, so we know that there are a lot of layers to this. And there's no way that we can represent perfectly each and every individual, but we know that we can by going into diverse communities really help to bring to light some of the stories that are important. We're thrilled to death that we have providers who are accessible to us at all kinds of hours, but we want everyone to be able to help out here. For a lot of people that don't have family, you guys can wait for us all the time. I feel like that makes it a very small difference. We are not the experts on your place. There's a lot that we don't know. We want to come and build partnerships and support local organizations and local communities that are working to solve their own problems and find ways to support that. An attempt to effect policy, to effect change, to effect the livable spaces for Americans around the country, we want to be able to use story and use narratives to that effect. Arts can spark the conversation. Never did the poem itself change the policy. Never did, have I seen a song, a play, or anything of that nature make the towers of oppression come tumbling down, but it inspired the mind. It's like Tupac said, I'm not going to change the world, but I'm going to spark the mind that's going to do it. And so we hope to create the kind of art that's going to spark enough minds to think more critically, more intersectionally about all of these different facets of struggle, of oppression, and realize that they're connected. You're not suffering alone in Letcher County. You're not suffering alone in Moscow, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. You're not suffering alone in Chicago, Oakland, because we share the same issues. And if we can triangulate that, collectivize that, put communities in conversation, help each other to see each other, and help those things to come to the fore, we believe that we can spark some of the change inside of people's minds and hearts and thinking and actions. It eventually leads to people creating a type of activity that changes the policy. I was living in a single line trailer with my mom because she raised me, you know, single line a lot, and we're just repeating the cycle, but other than that, you know, we obviously need, she was having to pay out of pocket for an ambulance to transport her family member to a doctor's point. One of the goals that I think could be easily met is that we give humanity to each other. We don't come in pointing fingers saying, hey, you know, this is the reason this is happening. These are the people who are causing this to happen, and this is what needs to be done about it. We're putting a face to it and giving it a story. I can sit here and tell you all day about my political views and my views on what the world should look like, what the economy should look like, but if I tell you a story about who I am and why I am the way I am and why I think that way, you're going to reasonate with it a little bit more than me just preaching at you. I feel like we're at a tipping point and that there's a lot of energy and momentum going towards growth in our community. If our neighbors are suffering, if the students that my granddaughter is in class with don't have the things that they need, don't have the health care that they need, don't have the resources that they need, then the whole class is going to suffer. I think we were given the platform to tell each other stories and to associate each other with stories rather than just our professional titles or just our names. All of these people who are here, I'm going to remember them by a story they told me about their grandmother, by a story they told me about addiction they faced, about a hardship they faced in their life that I can relate to my life because a lot of us have more in common than we think we do. I think the broader picture that we're trying to paint is of what's shared across those places because we don't want to and we don't think there's any necessity for them to be competing with each other. We think that in this nation we have more than enough resources to meet everybody's needs. And I