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Karen Kenney: Hey you guys, welcome to the
Karen Kenney show, and I'm super duper
excited to talk to you today, because I want
to talk to you. I'm just going to go right

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in. Just gonna go right in, because I'm
wicked excited because I'm going to talk to
you about something, or is it really a
someone that I love, love, love, love, love,

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love, okay, all right. Pull it together.
Pull it together. Okay. So some of you may
know that where I live, I kind of like, live
in the woods, and I like, even right now,

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even right now as I'm like recording this, I
have windows on either side of the computer
right, and I can look up on what I call the
ridge. We have a ridge behind our house, and

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up on the ridge is where I see a lot of
animal activity. I'm so lucky. There's like
birds and squirrels and chipmunks and
turkeys and deer. I one day saw a fox. I

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almost left my body. I was so excited. I've
seen all kinds of creatures. And there's one
particular woodland creature, you know me.
You guys know me. Like, I love all animals,

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all the animals, all the time, all day long.
Like, that's like that. That's just fat. And
we have one particular animal that Rome's uh
area Ayad, our woods, right? And she's a

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little three legged dia. And her name, we
call her Trixie. Okay, so she is a tripod,
right? She's missing her front left Yes, her
front left leg. Now I'll get into that more

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in a second, but I'm just setting up the
premise of the show. So today we're going to
be talking about Trixie, and I'm going to
call this sucker having hope, having hope,

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and I'm going to connect the dots as to what
Trixie has to do with with this. Okay, so
let me tell you a little bit about her first
and foremost, and then I'll get into the

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whole hope thing. So we first noticed her
probably about six or seven years ago, and I
don't know if I saw her up on the ridge
first, but I noticed this dia that was

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walking differently than the other dia. So a
lot of times I'll see, like, up again, up on
the ridge, I'll see, like, a little family,
a little herd of animals, a little like, and

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they'll be like, a couple of does, maybe a
fawn, like, whatever. And so they'll let go,
scaling across and then, like, a little bit
lagging behind them. All of a sudden, one

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day, I saw this three legged DIA and like,
lost my mind. Like I was like, oh my god, oh
my god, oh my god. Maybe my sweetie saw her
too. I don't we don't remember who saw her

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first, but this is, like, my first memory of
her. And so over the years, she has, like,
obviously, come down the ridge. She cuts
through our yard, she nibbles on the thing,

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the vegetation around a yard. We see her all
the time, and it is always like a super
duper treat and a blessing for me when I see
her. I'm a little obsessed with her, and I

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always have such a visceral, like, physical
and emotional reaction whenever I see her,
the first thing like it just makes me
immediately start to cry. I get so happy at

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such happy tears. One because, first of all,
a lot of people in New Hampshire hunt. So we
have put up like no trespassing and no
hunting signs all along around our acreage,

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because we don't want, first of all, no no,
hello vegan. Of like, 23 years you're not
going to be hunting on my land, but we can't
control, like, what you know, the forests

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around us and like what other people do. So
we try to keep her safe, because we love her
so much. But a deer out in the wild, never
mind a three legged dia but just think

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about, like, the snow the woods, tripping
over things like it's not it's not always
easy to, like, get around. And most deer in
their natural habitat, in the wild for a

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variety of reasons, hunters, humans
included, you know, their lifespan. I've
heard people say, even though they can live
a lot longer in captivity, etc, etc, but out

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in the wild, they usually last around, like,
three or four years or whatever. I've even
heard people say two to three years. So the
fact that she's been around for this long,

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that in itself, is just miraculous. So we
hadn't seen her in a while, and then this
past summer, you know, anytime we see her,
it's like, Oh my God. Thank God. Thank God.

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Like, oh my god. Like, I just get so
relieved, like, so relieved that she's still
alive. She brings me so much joy. But so we
saw her this summer in August, and she had

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with her for the very first time, her own
little fawn, her own. Little Bambi, her own
little spot, little white spots on her back,
little Fauci. I thought I was going to have

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an out of body experience. I was so happy.
Oh, my God. Okay, that was then. And then,
like, a week or so ago, I saw a little, a
little herd of Dia down in the yard. I know

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usually because the dogs start going
ballistic and they stop backing and scoot,
never box, right? But scoot when scoot
backs, you know, something's going down,

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right? So I go downstairs, and I'm like, Oh,
look, there's three deer, you know, and they
look like does. And I'm like, they're so
cute. And then all of a sudden I see this

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other small idea is, like, not quite still a
baby fawn, but still a fawn, like still
young. Just if you guys, if you've ever had
a pet, you know what the zoomies are, right?

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Like, you've seen a cat have zoomies. They
just start running for no reason. You've
seen puppies and dogs have zoomies, where
they just run around and run around. Well,

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this little deer had totally the zoomies. So
I was like recording, I'm gonna get to the
hot beat. Stay with me for the story. I sat
recording this little baby deer, like

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zipping around. He's like, just running.
She's running through the yard, like going
into the woods, and then, you know, 10
seconds later, just zipping back around. So

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I'm trying to capture this on my phone, and
I'm laughing so hot, and all of a sudden,
the deer shoots out of the little zoom media
shoots out of the woods, runs across the

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yard, across the driveway, and kind of out
of sight. So I try to, like, pan over and
catch it, and all of a sudden I see that
it's Trixie fawn. And Trixie, like the

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little deer the Zoom media had gone over to
like, see their mom. And so I look over and
I'm like, oh my god, it's Trixie. And I'm so
excited. Okay, this is just recently the

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snow storms, about just snow on the ground,
whatever. So I shoot this little video. I
have a separate video of all the zoomies and
stuff like that. And then I have another

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little short video. It's like 27 seconds
long of just her walking across the
driveway, not even the baby, just Trixie,
okay? And I think, Oh, my God, I love her so

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much. I'm gonna post her on Instagram,
right? I'm just gonna do, I haven't done a
reel in a gazillion years. I'm like, I'll
just throw up a, you know, a little thing,

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and let some other people enjoy her. So I
put it on Facebook, I put it on Instagram,
and I went about my business. Holy Jesus
Christ on a cracker. Slowly, slowly. I don't

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know what happened. I don't really give a
shit about the algorithm. I don't expect
posts to do well, blah, blah, blah, blah,
but all of a sudden, the number of views of

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that real starts to, like, take off. And I'm
watching it, and I'm like, Oh, look, that's
really fascinating. It's had like, 400
views, right? And then I'm not, I shit you

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not. I shit you not, you guys. It's goes
from like, 400 to 1000 to 2000 and it just
keeps going, and then it hits 10,000 and I'm
like, This is ridiculous. Like, what is

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happening? Lo and behold, here we are now,
like, I think, like, a week later, and
Trixie is real. Her video has been viewed
more than 1.6 million with an M million, I'm

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like, of course, it's so like me to have
something quote, unquote, go viral that has
nothing to do with my business, right? I
just laugh and laugh and laugh. Oh, my God,

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my spiritual team has the funniest sense of
humor, but it may not have anything to do
with my business, but it has everything to
do with my hat. It has everything to do with

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who I am, and the reason why I shared Trixie
video, and why now we're getting to the hot
beat of this episode, why I think it's still
going up. I mean, it's still going up and

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up, right? But I think the reason why so
many people are viewing it and sharing it
and whatever, and commenting on it, you
know. And I've been doing my best to, like,

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keep up with commenting back and responding
to people, you know. I think there's a
number one reason why it's happening, but
before I get into that, I want to, like,

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just talk about some of the comments,
because it has to do with this episode,
right? So, alright, actually, I'll back up.
Let me say this. This is what I think. I

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think when you see this video of Trixie, and
if you haven't seen it, or you want to see
it, you can see it on my Facebook page,
right? Just find me, Karen Kenney, but you

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can also on Instagram, I am Karen Kenney,
right? L, i, v, e, live. So Karen Kenney
live one word, that's my handle, okay, if
you want to go see it. And so I think what

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it is is that Trixie in a really fucking
doc. Time in the world, Trixie is like this
little b. Chicken of hope, her resiliency,
her ability, first of all, to be around

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after six or seven years, to be having her
own little herd, her own little family, to
be able to have her own little fawn to keep
going despite all the odds that are against

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her. I think it's moving people's hats. I
think it's it's really like a little beacon
of hope. And what I thought, which is so
interesting, is, if you take a look right

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now, take a look around, right I say this.
I've been saying this probably for at least
six years that have been on the show and if
not before that, but the world is, is in a

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really, really, really, kind of a shit show
doc space. Now, I am kind of an annoyingly
positive person. I look for the good. I look
for, you know, I look for the good, the

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beautiful and the holy all the time, like,
that's my thing. But I don't, I don't
prescribe to, like, just the like, Oh my
God. Like, everything's great. I don't

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believe in some people call it toxic
positivity, whatever. I'm kind of what I
call like, an idealistic, realistic person,
right? So I we in A Course in Miracles, we

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would say it like this, right? Look at the
crucifixion, but like, Don't stare at it. Do
you know what I mean? Like, don't become
obsessed with it. So I am not blind to what

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happens in the world, and I try not to let
the ego, fearful thought, system of the
world dictate everything that's going on
inside of me, right? I tend to lean towards

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the light like I tend to try to lean more
towards love, but I don't deny what's kind
of happening here, around in the world. And
right now, there's some shit going down,

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right? Donald Trump is elected president.
There's a bunch of like, just hatred and
division and violence and racism is like it
never went anywhere. First of all, never

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went anywhere. Only got worse when a bunch
of white people lost their fucking minds
because we elected a black president, right?
So many people are collectively just like

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losing their minds right now making
decisions to, like, and, you know, education
and dei and like, all the Deia and just
going after groups of like, it's just, it's

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a nightmare. It's a nightmare when you, when
you, I don't want, I don't want this episode
to go in this direction. But I will just say
this, I look around amongst all the darkness

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of the world, and I just think, you know, I
want to be part of the solution, like I want
to be part of the light. And for me, part of
the solution is having hope. And I think

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that if you take a look around right now,
that's like I'm saying, take a look around
right now. Things are a little. Things are a
little right now. You know what I mean. But

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when it came to Trixie, when I did that
post, and I started seeing like, the number
of views go up, I also was looking at the
comments, and what I found so fascinating is

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is that I would say, like, 97% of people
were being positive, love her too. They fell
in love with her too, leaving, like, really
beautiful comments. You know, there's a

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handful of people who are like, Why don't
you save her and take her to a sanctuary
like, you know, they want the human to like,
swoop in, of course, into fear on her

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behalf, you know. And for those people, I
had to, like, respond and say, like, Hey,
she's been doing just fine for six or seven
years. I do what I can to protect her, you

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know, like, no hunting signs, whatever. But
there's a lot of reasons why you shouldn't
feed dia like, in your yard. There's a lot,
I mean, it's one thing if you live in on,

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like, totally protected land, where nobody's
on your land and up. But a lot of times,
feeding stations for deers can make them
really easy prey, because they start to rely

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on that food, and then they congregate. And
it makes it easier for the preys and the
predators, the predators, I mean, to, like,
find them. So my whole thing is, Trust me.

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Trust me. Trust me. There is a part of me
that is just like, I just want to make her
life so much easier. Can I just leave her
out some food and like, dead, like all the D

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I want all the animals to be happy, healthy,
healed and and safe, right, free from
suffering. But I also try not to do the
whole like, I'm just going to be the Savior

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in swooping and save her. Save her from I
can't save her from nature. I can't save her
from all the coyotes or all the awful things
that could potentially happen to her, but I

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can do what I can on my land. And of course,
if I ever found her injured or hurt or look
wounded or whatever, I whatever. A we, I
should say we My sweetie too. Whatever we

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could do, we would help her. But there was
like this, this little subsection of people
on the internet who just cannot help
themselves, right? They have to be, let's

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just call it what it is. They have to be
dicks. They have to think. They think
they're so clever and so witty and like,
nobody had thought of this before, and

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they're just going to say the thing to get
attention, or to be that one miserable human
being who, you know, has to say something to
make fun of her to, like all the hunters, a

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lot of hunters had to leave comments about,
like, bang, next meal. Oh, oh, the Kaya.
Like, just you can just imagine, I don't
even want to give them time and energy, but

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you can just imagine some of the things that
people said. I was like, delete, delete,
delete, delete, because you have no business
here. This post wasn't for you, if that's

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how you think. And this is my whole point.
Their comments, what they showed me is how
they feel and how they think. What it showed
me was their mind. Now let's come back to

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hope. So for me, when I think about hope and
what Trixie was giving us all, which was
this, look at this incredibly resilient
creature, and let me tell you something, she

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is a walking symbol of us too, because
whether you see yourself this way or not,
trust me when I tell you we are all
incredibly resilient creatures. And because

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of that, she is mirroring back to us what we
the potential of us. She is showing us in
these tough times where there's going to be
some people who maybe don't like you, have

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have shitty things to say to you, or might
even want you dead right amongst this time,
she continues to go. She continues to
thrive. She continues to show up. She

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continues to like create family. She
continues to gather together in her little
community, her little herd, right? So I have
this really strong feeling like she, for me,

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is a symbol of resiliency. She's a symbol of
hope, and she's spreading a lot of light and
love in the world. And I think that when the
forces of darkness are at work, man, do they

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hate love and light? Do they? And I don't
mean like love and light, I mean like fierce
like love light, the people who are showing
up, the people who are showing up and not

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going away, especially when you don't expect
them to so many other people would have
counted her down, like expecting her like
every year she I have an expectation, right?

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I hold a vision every year. Now, of course,
you know, at some point, you know we're all
gonna die like at some point, there will be
a year where we won't see her, and I'll be

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crushed, and that'll be a tough one, but I
also understand the circle of life, but
until that time, until that time, I walk
around with the hope in my heart that she's

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gonna make it another year, and She might
have another fawn, and she might continue
right to be the little blessing that in the
lesson, she's a blessing and a lesson right

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in our lives. So I wanted to talk about hope
too because I got curious about it. I'm
like, Oh, I'm going to look up the word
hope. And the reason why I wanted to do this

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episode too is I think a lot of people think
of hope is kind of like this lame. It's kind
of like lame and naive and Pollyanna ish,
like, kind of thing. So

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when you look up hope in the dictionary,
this is what it says. It says hope is a
feeling of expectation for certain things or
outcomes to happen. A feeling of expectation

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for certain things or outcomes to happen.
Okay? And so I was like, Oh, that's
interesting. And then when you just type in
hope, there also comes up, like biblical

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hope, like how the Bible meant hope. And the
way that I've interpreted like, kind of like
biblical hope is that this belief that God
will carry through on what he said. And my

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way of interpreting that is, like, this
belief that God is going to get shit done,
right? Like, you just put it all on God, you
have hope, and you're like, Yeah, God's

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going to come through or whatever, right?
Some Christians out there might be like, No,
you got it wrong. KK, I'm open to being
wrong, but that's how I was thinking about

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it. But I started thinking about this, you
know, because some people describe hope as a
feeling or an emotion, but I also think that
hope is a way of thinking. I think hope is a

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feeling and an emotion, but I also think
it's a way of thinking, and hope for me,
right isn't about certainty, right? Because
when you look at that definition from the

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dictionary, it's a feeling or expectation
for certain things, like you really want a
certain thing to happen. And for me, it's
not about certainty. For me, hope is all

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about possibility. What becomes possible
when we align our mind with something
greater, not just buying into what. We think
the world is showing us right, what the ego

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mind has created in this, what we would
call, in A Course in Miracles, small ah, ah,
like the little ah letter, Ah right, Q, I S,
right, the small Ah, right. This world is

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like, kind of like the small ah, reality. I
think that when you tap into hope, what you
tap into, is like capital reality, which is
beyond this world, which isn't just limited

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to what our eyeballs see or our experience,
our physical bodily experience here has
shown us, I kind of like to dwell in the
realm of possibility, of things that my mind

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maybe can't even understand, and this maybe
goes into, you know, the spiritual or the
mystical or the magical, right? And I just
think there's so much more going on beyond

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what our physical eyes can show us, and it's
proof, like so many people see Trixie, so
many people wrote with good intention,
right? Oh, like teary eyes, like tear like

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crying and like poor creature. So many
people called her a poor creature, and I let
some of them go, but once in a while I would
respond, and I'd say, Actually, she's not a

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poor creature. We see her as incredibly
healthy and resilient and strong. This is a
creature that has lasted like, six or seven
years. She has a family. She has a fawn. She

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looks healthy and strong like, you know,
I've seen her, like, hop over things and
move pretty quickly when she's had to, you
know, this is not a quote, unquote, poor

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creature. So what I was going to say earlier
is so much of how people responded right in
their comments, whether cruel or kind, it
was just a reflection of their own mind. It

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was just showing me them. It was showing me
not only how they feel, but how they think.
And to me, I think if we're not careful, we
can get roped into the darkness and the

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cynicism and the hopelessness and the
helplessness, you know, like right now, I
think there are a lot of powers that be that
want the masses, that want the people to be

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divided, to be and, look, there's a lot of
reasons to feel divided right now, right
there's a lot of us that feel very
differently from one another. I understand

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why it happens, right? But part of this is
recognizing that they how do I say that?
When you say the words, they like that,
okay, there's a lot that there is a lot of

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kind of push to have us feel overwhelmed, to
have us feel hopeless, to have us feel
helpless, that's what the powers that be
want. Because when you feel that way, you

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don't fight back, you don't show up, you
don't call your congress, you don't call
your representatives, you don't gather
together in community. You just kind of want

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to stay in your little bubble and other
people and not get too involved, because you
feel exhausted and overwhelmed, and I get
it. We all, we all have to follow our own

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individual curriculum. And there are times,
there are times when activists need rest.
There are times when we need to take a time
out. There are times when you need to just

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find a safe place to rest your head and take
a few winks and have a good meal and have
somebody hug you and let you cry and tell
you it's all right. That is all totally

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appropriate to the madness. And I always say
we need to do these things, and then we need
to get back down to the business of love.
And I don't mean love and light, right,

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although in my previous episode, I talked
about how fierce and powerful love and light
can be in the right context, right? But I
mean, like we have to, like we have to not

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get hopeless, because when we get hopeless,
we tend to feel helpless, and we can start
to create reasons or excuses or things that
tells us, you know, it's never going to

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change. We can't do anything. It's just how
it is. It's like, nope. And to me, Trixie is
like, is like, kind of like this bright,
shining light of reminding me, reminding me

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of my own strength, reminding me of my own
resiliency, my reminding me that no matter
even when the odds are stacked against you,
and people don't think you're going to make

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it through another season. Boom, you show up
in the spring, and you don't show up alone.
You show up with your herd, you show up with
your community, you show up with your

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people, right? You know what I'm saying? So
she's been absolutely incredible. And I
think that you know a lot of people you
know, think that to be hopeful, especially

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in unprecedented times, or doc times, or
whatever you want to call them, that it's
naive. And to me, it's not naive at all. I
think it's incredibly powerful. It's because

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I'm not relying on just myself right to know
the answer or to have. Figured out, you know
this, to me, is like moving again beyond
what my human eyes show me, what we might

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call in the Course of Miracles, like, is
above the battleground is to take a
different POB, to have a POV like, a
different point of view, to have a shift in

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perception from fear, like, oh my god,
Trixie, you know, the predators are gonna
get or, like, like, fuck off. You know what
I mean, like, there, there's, like, no need.

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I'm like, Why? Why? Why do people insist on
going on other people's, you know, pages or
threads or posts to just try and take, like,
you know, a big shit on whatever they're

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saying. It's like, it's just humans are so
sometimes exhausting. We're also incredible,
but sometimes people, you're exhausting,
okay, but so I love having hope. I'm call me

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naive. Call me whatever you want to call me,
but I love having hope. And I want to share
with you. I'm going to share with you a
quote, a little passage that is one of the

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things that I remind myself of when it
starts to feel like, Oh, my God, the
bastards are winning, or whatever.

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There's several quotes I think of Gandhi has
a quote that I love. I've talked about
before, and maybe I'll talk about it on
another episode soon. So I rely on, I rely

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on a lot of the members of my spiritual
team. When things start to get extra weird
and extra kooky out there, I draw upon the
wisdom of my spiritual team. So in a moment,

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I'm going to share with you this quote or
this way of thinking that has been
incredibly helpful to me, and it's something
that I want to leave you with but I also

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want to say this, like, this is a great time
to, kind of like, check yourself right, to
just take a moment to just like, slow down
and tune in. And to be really honest with

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yourself, I always say, like, notice what
you notice, but kind of take a moment see if
you can do a little moment of inventory. Do
this out of curiosity and not judgment. Do

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it out of awareness and not shaking your
finger at yourself. I always say, be
curious, because that's what you're what you
need, and what your mind needs is, is your

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compassion and your curiosity. What it
doesn't need is your contempt, okay, so in
your judgment. So let's, let's, like, swing
open the love doors and approach this little

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exercise in this way. But if you could just
kind of like, just kind of notice what it's
been like in your head space, what have the
quality of your thoughts been? Quality of

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your thoughts about yourself, quality of
your thoughts about others, quality about
your thoughts about the world, right? What
have your What has your light the quality of

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your thoughts been? What is the quality of
your words been? The things you say to
yourself, the things you've been writing,
the things you've been speaking power into

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right? Just start to notice these things.
Start to notice when you start to shift over
into that ego side. I think of I often joke
about how the ego, how the mind is like a

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duplex. And on one side is the right
mindedness, right on the miracle mindedness,
and on the left side is like where the ego
goes to goes to have parties. The Keg is the

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wild. Keg is with the sticky floor, right?
So people in the nest know what I'm talking
about. It's kind of like an inside thing. So
when you find yourself spending a little bit

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too much time over on that side, over in the
place where the darkness is, or, and again,
I'm not talking about like, oh, just be
positive all the time, but when you find

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yourself kind of shifting into that
hopelessness or that helplessness, or that
throwing your hands up, or just being
completely exhausted and not having anything

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left to give, because you're not taking
like, care of yourself, just like, notice
that and know that you can choose
differently. Know that you can choose again.

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Know that you can take a moment to catch
your breath and rest, and then maybe you'll,
you'll get your own assignment. We're, I'm
going to talk about that on another

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individual curriculum or individual
assignment soon, because we all have a role
to play. We all have a role to play, and you
matter. And we need your love. We need your

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light. We need your gifts. We need your
talent. We need your brilliance. We need
your hope. We need your hope. Okay, and it
can be really easy right now to not feel

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that way. So do you just take a moment with
yourself, you slow down, you sit close your
eyes, maybe take a couple of good deep
breaths into the nose, exhale out twice as

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long through the mouth, let that nervous
system start to maybe down regulate a little
bit, and then just get honest with yourself
and ask yourself, like, yeah, what kind of

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thoughts have I been Having lately? You
know, how, what kind of how? What, what kind
of words have I been putting out into the
universe? And for me, I think one of the

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most resilient things that we can do is to
to remain hopeful, to remain joyful, to keep
showing up and caring for one another and
loving one another and looking out for. Our

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neighbors looking out for people who maybe,
maybe look different than us, right? We
cannot, we cannot start to see each other as
the enemy. And I know, like, Look, I get it.

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There are a lot of people acting in a lot of
ways that I am not down with, I am not okay
with. You know, if you're somebody who, if
you're somebody who is okay with so much of

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the racism and the hatred and the violence
that's going on in the world, we are not in
the same camp, like, just know that, right?
They still love you, still help you out if I

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can. And right, it's like, Jesus, okay, and
we're back. So I want to share something
here about this idea that to be hopeful is
to be naive. And this is a quote by a guy

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named guru Singh, and he says this, he says
this. And it's about this concept. It's
about the concept, you know how people say
to you, like, Don't get your hopes up. I've

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never really liked it when people say to me,
don't get your hopes up. I'm like, why don't
try to bring you down? I understand that
they see it as a way of trying to protect

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you. They might even see it as a way of
loving you, because they they don't want you
to be quote unquote disappointed, right? So
people say, Oh, don't get your hopes up.

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Like, don't have high expectations of
yourself or anybody else. And I'm like,
yeah, no, that never really sat well with
me. I don't, I don't really like that. Like,

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don't, don't, don't be, like, a patty
pooper, right? Like, don't be coming on my
post about Trixie talking about predators
and shooting her at all. Like, just, like,

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beat it. Like, just piss off. Like, beat it,
you know. Oh, my God. Okay, but listen to
this. This is from Guru Singh. I'm going to
say it slowly. I might even say it twice,

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because sometimes I need to hear things said
twice for it to kind of sink in. Okay, so
whatever your dream is, whatever your hope
is, whatever your dream is, right? We're now

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where you're now entering the realm of
possibility. This is like going from the
Wizard of Oz, when the Wizard of Oz goes
from black and white into color, like we are

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moving into that Technicolor vision, okay?
He says, walk as if and fill in the blank,
right? Dream, your dream and walk as if,
whatever that dream is has already happened.

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Okay, this is what he says, like, walk as if
whatever that dream is, get your hopes up,
like whatever the dream is, walk as if it's
already happened. Dream your dream, not what

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anybody else tells you. Dream your dream,
and walk as if whatever the thing is has
already come true. And he says this because
we know what we want, we know what we want

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and when we know what we want, we receive
our expectations. So learn to expect the
best. Don't follow that old saying that says
Don't get your hopes up, or don't get your

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expectations up. You don't want to be
disappointed. Because if you don't want to
be disappointed, don't be act in a different
way. So walk as if, and get your

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expectations way up there and you be you and
be nobody else. And that's the directive.
Walk as if, keep those hopes way up there.
So I walk as if I'm going to see Trixie next

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year too. I hope I see her a lot more this
winter season. I hope she's doing fantastic.
I believe in her. And when the time when the
sad time comes when I don't see her anymore,

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yeah, I will probably cry my little eyes
out, right? If I find out, if I hear from
somebody, a local neighbor or whatever, who
finds her body, because we all know who she

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is, right? Our little three legged dia
little Trixie, if, if, if the time comes,
you know, I'll be really sad. But you know
what? I'm not going to focus on the fact

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that that she's had a long life. That's what
I'm going to focus on. I'm going to focus
not on, oh, she's dead. It's so awful. Like
I said, I will cry, but I'm going to focus

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on how much joy she brought us, how much
hope she brought us. Right? Having hope
right now is a really kind of like,
rebellious thing, like not getting sucked

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into the undertow of negativity and hatred
and throwing up our hands or sticking our
heads, no, it's like we're showing up. We're
making calls. We're gonna get some shit

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done. We are a resilient people. Don't ever
forget that. Don't ever forget that. Okay,
so you go out there and you walk as if too
keep your hopes way up there. Having hope is

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a rebellious act. It is a brave act. It is a
strong act, right? It's not naive, because
I've seen some things in my lifetime. I have
seen some things in my lifetime that I just

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think, like, holy shit, something greater
than me got. Involved there, right? Just
like, meaning, like, I think that love wins.
Maybe I'm an idiot and the jury is still

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out, but I think love wins in the end. I
think that's a good place to end. All right,
you guys, I'm having a lot of hope over
here, and I hope you're having hope too. So

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wherever you are in the world, all right,
first of all, also

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come join the nest. I've been thinking about
this, and I'm like, You know what? Right
now, with the world being the way it is, it
is such a great time to be around people, to

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be in a little community of people, right?
Who are noticing, who are paying attention,
who are staying hopeful, who are learning
right, not just spiritual principles, but

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practical tools, practical neuroscience,
tools to help us. Like, the nest is such a
cool little space. It's like a cool little
family like, come join us. Go to Karen

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kenney.com/nest, I just had to say that,
okay, and we're back. Because if just I'm
like, I can't believe more people have
wanted to join this thing. And it's not

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about me, like, oh, because of me, but it's
like, what the nest offers you in these very
turbulent times. It is like a beautiful
space, a beautiful space. And it's not just

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like, oh, we sit around and theorize, but
like, we can get some shit done from the
inside out, because that's the only way.
That's the only way that the world changes.

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It's an inside job. More on that later.
Okay, here we go. Wherever you go, may you
leave the people, the animals, the place,
the environment and yourself better than how

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you found it wherever you go, may you and
your energy and your presence and your love
and your hope be a blessing. Bye. Bye.