That's All Folks! This is my last One Hand Speaks storytelling podcast. Many thanks to everyone who has listened and I hope I at least made you smile, laugh, and contemplate.

The future is wide open. As I record this podcast, this is how I see the path forward for my life.

My life has changed a lot in the past 6 years. As I look forward into the great unknown of my life, I am excited to see how my life will unfold.

As I age, think about retirement, and consider what my life will look like after my mother passes, I have a deep and sincere desire to own less.

It is that time... I am contemplating my path to retirement.

I am working to getting Citizenship by Decent in Italy or Mexico. Both if possible.

After almost 9 years of sharing and broadcasting the One Hands Speaks storytelling podcast, I will be bringing it to a close before 2025 comes to an end.

For the past 15 months, I have been teaching Buddhism to inmates in a prison.

I love my 2004 video iPod. I still have it and it works like a champ.

My mother and I just got over the hump of the olive processing for 2025. And what a hump it was!