André Duqum

Yes.

And that's love.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's,

building community.

Like I know that you've spoken a lot to comedy as community and building community in general, the importance of it.

I see you as somebody who's inherently pretty independent, but like your work is very relational and community oriented.

And so I'm just curious what, yeah, do you have any thoughts on the necessity of communication or sorry, the necessity of community?

And you referenced earlier that like love is essentially recognizing self as other and

And through community and the reflection in the mirrors of other people, we get to like learn so much about ourselves and show up.

And so, yeah, what are your thoughts on the importance of community, especially in a time where it seems like we're so divided?

like the experience of being connected to life, to others, take it off the pedestal of like a meditation mat or like a spiritual practice and put it into your everyday life through the various different ways you can.

I've been really enjoying like these Japanese style, like tea ceremonies every morning, like sitting with tea for an hour.

It's like an, it's like an hour long meditation by your drinking, pouring tea.

And it's been really cool to feel like the,

transference into my day-to-day life of like maintaining that level of awareness of of like you spoke to the object and experience or the uh experiencer and the observer the observer yeah uh and like being able to maintain that throughout your day like as a as a really really beautiful practice um i'm curious like yeah one of the last thoughts or questions i kind of have is

I think people, like so many people, admire your level of creativity and your level of artistry.

And we all have that place that is one and the same within us.

And then we also have this deeply unique individual expression of God and life, the universe.