Melinda French Gates

And at the end of it, I think the music is so beautiful.

It says, to love another person is to see the face of God.

And I thought, oh, that's it.

You know, God or spirit is here between all of us.

And it's up to all of us to figure out, you know, how are you in community or connection with others that helps you lift that from yourself and from others?

Because we touch one another through those places.

That's my belief.

Oh, when I walk in nature.

I take time in quiet almost every morning.

So sometimes then, and when I do, I like to sit outside.

Even if it's cold in Seattle, I'll try and sit out with a coffee, you know, or go out and walk, get my feet in the grass, walk in the yard.

But there are places like when you're in a forest and you're walking in a forest, there's a place north of Seattle I like to go.

There's a set of islands, the San Juan Islands.

I know them.

Yeah, and when I'm up there, oh my gosh, it just, there's just a grounding.

And like those islands are rocks.

They've been there, you know, for centuries before us.

And other humans have walked those paths long before I did, you know, hundreds of years ago.

And I just, you just feel a grounding and a settledness.

And that's when I feel like I can sort of feel some of these people that I've known or who've come before me.