(with music) TOPICS: what to keep and what to save, living toward my values, letting go, circles of gift exchange, faith and imagination, trust, the contagion of animal fear, getting distance and height and perspective in the hopes of clarity, wishing for some serious long-term chill that doesn't demand or enforce chill or calm or silence. Can I surrender and still retain what's most important, and err on the side of not really knowing what that is yet? To whom do I surrender, and what? To whom and what am I responsible, and for what? Is anyone responsible to me? Will there come a time where words are actually less important, impactful, necessary and practiced than actions? A time out of time, for flow and music and equity, and seeing eye to eye -- long term, without expectations?