Richard Taite

So we have both kinds of neighbors.

With these neighbors, we're thinking of taking down the fence.

With those neighbors, they're like doubling that's height.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

No, that's exactly, I love to get that quote from you.

I've never heard that before.

It's much like Robin Wall Kimmerer's description of her people, the Potawatomi in the book, Braiding Sweetgrass, where she says, you know, every individual has the responsibility to cultivate their individual gifts and

And individuality, that differentiation, that allowing themselves to be different is all differentiation means.

You know, they then give the gifts back to the community so they become woven into the whole.

So it's not about homogeneity.

You know, it's not like a smoothie.

It's more like a fruit salad.

You know, we have a responsibility.

You know, what are you born into?

I mean.

There's this whole thing about temperament and it's pushed towards personality, but we have different temperaments and different skill sets and different things we do or don't do.

My daughter just absolutely loves science, so in a week she's going to get her doctorate degree in environmental science.

Our son, equally good at science, and our daughter's fantastic at art, but our son just decided he loves music.

It's just who he is, so he's a full-time musician, Alex Siegel.

They both could have gone either way.