 Hello my friends and welcome to my thinking tree. This tree is only about half a mile from my house and I've been coming here for about 10 years. And it's a place I come to when I want to think about things. When I want to cry about things. When I want to just ponder life's greatest questions and I've danced here. I've cried here. I've brought girlfriends here and other friends here. This is just my special little spot. I come here in the summertime and the spring time and it just connects me to nature and it grounds me and it allows me a time to just reprioritize what's important in life. Yeah today it's cold. Burr! One of my favorite things to do here is to just sit for a little bit, disconnect from phones and media and I just reminisce about the good times in life and adventures and beautiful moments and it just fills my heart with joy. And I can be having a hard day or a bummer of a day or I can be frustrated about something and I can just come here and sit and think. It just kind of all magically lifts away and it feels so good. It feels like a weight is being lifted off of me. And not only do I think about the past but I come here to dream about the future and plan life and adventures and what I want to do and even as simple as what I want to eat for dinner and that's usually an easy answer. It's burritos I want to eat for dinner but I love this spot. I really cherish it. I'm so fortunate that I live so close to nature. So close to these trees, so close to these mountains and right here today I can look at these little pine needles covered with little crystals of snow and it's just like wow. Mother nature is pretty awesome. It's pretty incredible. It's full on magic and it takes coming outside to see it sometimes. I know there's some cool stuff inside your house but there's nothing there's nothing I guarantee in your house that is as cool as crystals on a tree. You might have a big screen TV that you think is pretty neat but this is better. This tree doesn't give me any answers. It allows me a space to find my own answers and to get out of my head and to just connect and be here right now. And it's really important for me to do that from time to time because I can get all worked up about stuff in life as I'm sure most humans on this planet can. It allows me just a time to deep breathe. I can't talk because my lips are frozen to breathe deeply. I've been here a few times in the last week because there's been a lot to think about. All of us are going through this together. The world is in a very interesting state right now and it's all new to all of us. What's really interesting is that everybody can relate. I can call my family in Sweden and they're saying the same things. Our grocery stores are out of toilet paper and people are buying tons of food. I can call Mexico and other friends in Europe. It's fascinating that we're all in on this together because usually when there's a natural disaster it's just hyper local to one area that's having an earthquake or a hurricane. Only those people can really relate but we're all in this together and I think that's a really good thing. I think it's a really good thing because it's going to bring us all together. At the end of this whenever this does end I think there's going to be a new world order and I think there's going to be a lot more love and togetherness and it's going to be hard. Things are going to get bad and scary and we don't even know what's going to happen. The future is totally uncertain but the future is always uncertain right? If we knew what's going to happen in the future then life wouldn't be very exciting right? I hope all of you are taking good care of yourselves and I hope all of you, I'm guessing some of you might have your own thinking tree out there but if you don't have a thinking tree why don't you go find one. It doesn't have to be on top of a mountain. It doesn't have to be in an epic location just a nice quiet spot where you can sit and connect with yourself and with nature and with your fellow human beings and maybe if you're lucky maybe you live next to a waterfall you could have a thinking waterfall you could have a thinking log or bench it can be whatever it really can be whatever and I just want to let you know that I care about all of you and I thank you for being with me on this journey my adventures this this YouTube thing that I've started and it really means a lot to me that you watch my videos it really does it means the world to me so keep on commenting and saying hi and taking care of yourselves and your neighbors and your family and your friends and when we could all hug again man we're gonna have some serious hugs to go around right? Oh I haven't hugged anybody in like a week that's crazy I hug all the time it's so important to me and that's been taken away from us for right now and it's there's a good reason why but when we get to hug again you guys watch out because I'm gonna I'm gonna hug the crap out of you you know what I'm saying so have a good one stay safe and we'll see you down the road