00:00:00.000The other thing I wanted to say on it, and I'll yield the floor, is one of the things that particularly besets our folk is an overstimulus of negative information.
00:00:16.360We are hyper aware of all of the things that are wrong geopolitically and in these huge macro machinations of the world that we have very little direct interaction with to change in a positive direction.
00:00:32.660When we allow that to take the driver's seat, we become nihilistic, we don't take advantage of all of the small opportunities we have to act for the things that we believe in within the circles we actually have an effect over.
00:00:51.800We become so dominated by the current of, you know, things not being the way we want them to be that we miss daily opportunities to move things a little bit better in the circles we're in, with those around us, to set ripples in the world that do good things.
00:01:11.360uh alan mentioned that many people um myself included find meaning through our faith find
00:01:20.760meaning through the astro folk assembly because the truth of it is so many people are are atomized
00:01:27.700in the world and have you know maybe a couple of friends maybe the nuclear family they find
00:01:36.160themselves in that they can actually affect. In the AFA, you have direct access to make
00:01:42.680significant effects for hundreds, if not thousands of people. And that's an opportunity that most
00:01:49.420people that you run into at the grocery store don't have. You're very fortunate to have it.
00:01:55.120What do you do with it? Many of the people that, you know, the folk builder apprentices that I
00:02:01.200mentioned at the beginning of the show, they've chosen to step up and try to make something of
00:02:06.100that positive for what we're all doing.
00:02:08.480And that's awesome that they're doing that.
00:02:10.400Alan and myself have chosen to advance that
00:02:13.720to a bigger proportionality in our lives
00:02:16.880by becoming ordained as priests to the Aesir.