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Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We dig into why your value is real even when you do not feel it, and how small choices can change a life in ways you may never see. We also talk about paying kindness forward through everyday habits, creative work, and the way we give grace to others and ourselves + St. Patrick's Day.
• Defining worth as the sum of your lived choices and experiences
• Separating self-improvement from self-rejection
• Practicing acts of random kindness and learning to accept kindness
• Seeing the ripple effect of a smile or a simple hello
• Building platforms for authors through podcasts and collaborative books
• Using giving-focused publishing to support nonprofits
• Choosing grace over snap judgment while still avoiding toxic behavior
• Starting self-reflection with the “man in the mirror” mindset
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Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We dig into why your value is real even when you do not feel it, and how small choices can change a life in ways you may never see. We also talk about paying kindness forward through everyday habits, creative work, and the way we give grace to others and ourselves + St. Patrick's Day.
• Defining worth as the sum of your lived choices and experiences
• Separating self-improvement from self-rejection
• Practicing acts of random kindness and learning to accept kindness
• Seeing the ripple effect of a smile or a simple hello
• Building platforms for authors through podcasts and collaborative books
• Using giving-focused publishing to support nonprofits
• Choosing grace over snap judgment while still avoiding toxic behavior
• Starting self-reflection with the “man in the mirror” mindset
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:05I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French. It's not. It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:23Let's get on with the show!
00:25A special segment for February and March, midweek drops.
00:34Normally Saturday monologues and normally a guest appearance on a Wednesday.
00:40February and March, two a week, Tuesday and Thursdays,
00:45in order to get caught up on some interviews that have been stacking up. Enjoy.
00:51Joining me today will be L.S. Kirkpatrick.
00:57And yes, I'm going to go full-on culturalist, or culturalism, if there's such a word, today.
01:06And this will slot as the St. Patrick's Day episode, Tuesday, March 17th.
01:14But my guest is actually, as I found out, Scottish!
01:20But Kirkpatrick, close enough!
01:23Welcome to the show, L.S.
01:26Thank you so much.
01:27And I love that.
01:28And I have to say, you know, there's such a mix between English and Scottish and Irish
01:35that, you know, we're all a little bit of everything.
01:39And everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day.
01:43I was just going to go there.
01:46Today, as this airs, we're all Irish.
01:50And I generally don't drink beer that much anymore on a king,
01:55but I might have a green beer today also myself.
01:59So, and the ocean comes...
02:02Greens and ham.
02:02Yeah, yeah.
02:04Detroit River, we don't attempt to dye it green like Chicago does the canals.
02:10I think maybe they should.
02:12It could be fun.
02:13I mean, there's a...
02:15There's a...
02:17Is it the E-Course River?
02:20There's a few inlets from the river.
02:22We could and maybe should.
02:25Hey, idiots in Detroit, wake up, get on board, right, with the festivities.
02:31Let's dye those green.
02:33At any rate, she's not Irish.
02:38So, but I reached out to her on Podmatch.
02:43Again, I make no bones about that I use the Podmatch service.
02:48Tinyurl.com slash join Podmatch to check that out.
02:55And she says in her bio, or can talk about, you have great value in you.
03:04You are worthy.
03:05You are enough.
03:07You do matter.
03:08Oh, well, that sums up my Life and Living series of books.
03:12So I had to have her on.
03:14And no, that's not the moron.
03:17I can't think of his name right now.
03:19That plays Stuart Smalley, right?
03:21I am that old SNL garbage.
03:26She's serious.
03:28I'm serious.
03:29This is serious.
03:31Life matters.
03:33You are worthy.
03:34You may not recognize it every day or any day, but small things add up and matter.
03:42Yes?
03:43Yes, absolutely.
03:44You know, there's, when I give my talk about the value in you, I always say everything
03:50that you have done in your life, all of the choices you have made and the choices that
03:57other people have made that have directly affected you and how you've acted or reacted
04:01to them.
04:01That is where your value comes from.
04:04And that's what makes you so unique because nobody else has ever done that.
04:08Nobody else will ever do it.
04:10That totally belongs to you.
04:12And because of that value, that's what makes you worthy.
04:16And that worth and that value is what makes you enough just like you are.
04:21Doesn't mean we can't improve ourselves.
04:23We can.
04:24But you're worthy right now.
04:25And this is why you matter because you're the only one who can give your voice.
04:31Most are worthy.
04:33Right?
04:34There's exceptions to every rule.
04:36And sadly, as I discuss in my The Book of Kennedy Project Carpe Diem, there are a lot
04:43of what I coined mass holes.
04:46Masses of asses that are miserable SOBs and seem to only satisfy their own misery by trying
04:58to make others miserable.
05:00Don't be one of those people.
05:02And in my A Short Story, A Lasting Legacy misnomer title, it's a novelette.
05:09Short story has to do with Ryan, whose life's cut short.
05:12He always thinks, am I worthy?
05:17Am I living up?
05:18While he's a mental level brilliant, he has esteem issues, as a lot of people do.
05:29And exactly the point.
05:31Are we measuring up?
05:34And as my book goes into, his friends will say, yes, he does.
05:41In fact, I just created a Suno AI music tune.
05:46The book now has a theme, I've been playing it, that talks about we are your living legacy.
05:54And others will indeed be my and Kirkpatrick's living legacy if we do it right and do small
06:05acts of kindness, stride are so good, then indeed that is worthy.
06:12Yes.
06:13Yes.
06:13You know, one of the things I used to do before it was even popular, and I would always buy
06:19a coffee or a meal for the person behind me or across in the other lane going the opposite
06:26direction, just because I wanted to buy you someone's day.
06:31Yeah.
06:32Pay it forward.
06:32Then it became popular.
06:33Other people did it too.
06:35Yeah.
06:35And I love that, paying it forward.
06:37We need to remember to do that.
06:39When we've been offered a kindness, we need to in turn do that.
06:43Yep.
06:43And one of the hardest things some people have is accepting that kindness.
06:48So we need to learn to accept kindness, even if it's a quarter at the store, because you're
06:54short 10 cents, just say thank you.
06:57And next time, help somebody else out.
07:00Exactly.
07:00Arcs.
07:01Like, I go into that in my Life and Living series of books too, that I borrowed from the
07:08Evan Almighty movie.
07:10Arc.
07:10Not an arc as in Noah's arc, although he builds one in the movie.
07:15The point is acts of random kindness, our personal arc.
07:22And that indeed does make a big difference.
07:27Again, small things that you may never remember add up to a big sum and result in your name appearing
07:38in the book of life, because indeed you shall be known by your fruits.
07:44Let me back up.
07:47I put the garbage truck in reverse.
07:49Beep, beep, beep.
07:51I didn't ask the Christian show usual opening pun.
07:56The proverbial, your genesis, where were you born and raised?
08:04Proverbial first question.
08:06Born and raised, where are you now?
08:08Significant places you've been in between.
08:11How much time did you spend in prison and for what?
08:16And for the record, for the record, she's laughing for the benefit of the transcript.
08:24That's a joke, people.
08:25Let's lighten up.
08:28So, I was born in Oregon.
08:31I can't say I lived in one place because my dad helped put the power lines all over the state.
08:36So, we moved all the time.
08:38In fact, a lot of people asked if we were a military family because we were moving so much.
08:43Second grade, I was in six different schools.
08:46There was a lot of moving.
08:47Moved up in Montana.
08:49Met my husband in New Mexico.
08:52We lived in Idaho.
08:54And he's from Florida.
08:56It's just funny.
08:58You know, there's not enough time on this show to talk about all the places I went because there's more
09:03important things to talk about on here.
09:05But I just want to say this.
09:08It's kind of a funny little anecdote that when I was doing genealogy, and I did that for like 50
09:14years, and I discovered on both sides of my family, my mom's and my dad's side, they came from Scotland.
09:22My husband, both sides of his parents, came from Scotland.
09:26And we didn't know any of this when we got married.
09:29In fact, my mom passed away before I finished the genealogy, because she would have loved to have known that.
09:35She wasn't quite sure where we all came from.
09:38But it was just kind of interesting.
09:42Sometimes things like that happen.
09:45I'm going to joke.
09:46That's a really nice cover story.
09:49But I know the truth.
09:50You're really from Alpha Centauri, right?
09:53You're an alien.
09:55Not the cross-the-border illegal kind.
09:57You're an E.T.
10:02Yes, people, for the transfer.
10:04She's laughing.
10:05These are jokes.
10:06These are jokes.
10:09We need laughter.
10:10We need laughter.
10:11You know, this shirt, best-selling author, the giving book publisher.
10:15This was given to me by one of the people who were in my books.
10:19And I do this book every year.
10:22It's my book to give back to the world, to thank the world for everything that they've helped me with.
10:27And it's just amazing how people from all over the world can write something.
10:33And it goes together, which makes my book wonderful, because all the things go together.
10:38So it's not just any one thing.
10:41You've, in a way, crowdsourced a book.
10:43I've been debating doing that and, indeed, getting input from a bunch of different people, creatives who would like to
10:53be an author, but don't feel they have a whole book in them, even though I try to help them
10:59with my how to write a book and get it published book.
11:01Not just uploading it on Amazon.
11:06You can read the help files from concept to writing, character development, scene development, publishing, promoting, reviews, all of that
11:18in this book.
11:19But, yeah, some people, minor short stories that can be then compiled into a greater, broader, you as the author,
11:30create a bridge between them to create a bigger, broader novel.
11:35Well, I've been thinking about doing that, but with my health, it's a harder way to do a book, so
11:43I'm not sure I'll do it, but I've been thinking about it.
11:46Well, we can get together.
11:48We'll do one together.
11:49Somebody to walk with you.
11:51I've not co-authored with anyone yet, yes, so I'm looking forward to doing that at some point.
11:57But for those looking on the five behind-the-scenes video platform can see, but the 25-plus audio platforms
12:06and those reading a transcript do not know, you have a background behind you in the video,
12:12and it says, Wisdom on the Front Porch.
12:16So let's talk that.
12:18Yeah, that's my podcast, and I had a magazine last year.
12:22We're rethinking it this year, trying to bring more tools, useful tools, supplements, put it in a more creative, easy
12:31-to-use way.
12:32I mean, it was easy to use before, but we just wanted to see what we can do different about
12:37it.
12:38So the magazine's on hold, but the podcast is there.
12:41I actually celebrated our 100th episode.
12:44We're now on episode 109, and in that, I have Reading Between the Words podcast, which is a sub-part
12:52of it,
12:52and I did that one because there were a lot of authors who needed a platform to get their book
12:59out there, something different than what they've done before.
13:01So this is a meet the author and find out the story behind the book to really let you understand
13:07what's going on,
13:08to get in on the secrets and what went on in the development because it's really different.
13:14I see an avatar kind of you holding the globe, which automatically brings to mind, don't shrug, right?
13:22Atlas, shrug.
13:24There you go.
13:26There you go.
13:27Yeah, because, you know, I'm out to reach the world.
13:30You touch one life, that life touches another life, and maybe that life touches 100 lives.
13:36Those each touch, you know, more lives, and it just keeps going.
13:39We've got almost, well, we've got over 8 billion people in the world.
13:43So even a billion, yeah, there's enough to go around, you know, and I don't look at other publishers, other
13:51authors as competitors.
13:53And I did it first, and I realized that's the really bad thing because it's a negative way of thinking.
13:58But we're all working to help people do the same thing.
14:02Exactly.
14:03I couldn't put out how to write a book and get it published.
14:06I don't view them as competition either.
14:09I know people got stories.
14:11I want them to get their story out.
14:14It's good.
14:15Yeah, afraid that they can't write.
14:17Oh, I don't know.
14:18Grammar, I'm no good at that.
14:19You know, it doesn't matter.
14:20That's what editors are for.
14:21I am the worst spiller.
14:23I mean, you don't want to read my manuscript.
14:26It's pretty bad.
14:27But I give it to an editor who cleans it all up.
14:30And I see your book, so I'm going to hold my book up.
14:32It says the one and only write-your-own-story book for kids.
14:36And it has a little guidance in it.
14:38It has pages where they can write or put in an image or draw a picture.
14:42Just kind of help them understand what goes in writing a book.
14:45And kids love to tell stories.
14:48They love to tell stories.
14:50And this is a great way for them to do that and write it down.
14:53And, you know, as parents, who always keep everything our kids do, it's a lot of thing.
14:57But who knows?
14:58You know, I know people that have written things as kids.
15:02They go back to it later in life.
15:03And then they actually make a book out of it, whether it's a children's book or something that sparks another
15:09book in them.
15:10And that's the one thing I loved about the giving book is people were able to see what it was
15:15like to write a book,
15:16to kind of see what went into it.
15:18And I try to make it as gentle a process as possible.
15:21I have three people from my first three volumes who each wrote one thing.
15:25And then they were finally brave enough.
15:27They had been given the ability to have courage and say, I can do this.
15:33And now they're writing their own books.
15:34In fact, one went on to write her own anthology.
15:36And it's like, that's amazing.
15:38And I love everything about the giving book is giving.
15:42So everything on Amazon that my personal book sells, the authors keep theirs.
15:48But my personal book sells from Amazon, from Book Stop Buy.
15:52The profit all goes to a nonprofit.
15:55And this one is Izzy's Legacy Incorporated.
15:58The first four were to Idaho Youth Ranch, which not only helped the individual, but the family, the community.
16:05So I always want to make sure that I help support somebody who's supporting others.
16:12Yeah, I want to go back to, like you said, doing small things, sharing smiles, even whatnot.
16:20And they do to others the pay it forward concept.
16:25I call it, you can borrow this if you like, the old Pantene ad effect.
16:30Remember that shampoo?
16:33They tell two people, then they tell two people, then, right?
16:37Sooner or later, then you have a movement.
16:42Acts of random kindness are part of being a good Christian, if you're a Christian, or just being a good
16:52human, if you have no faith at all.
16:55Wanting to sow good and make this world a better place.
16:59And indeed, Heartwide created the show, Constitutionalist, to create a movement of positivity and kindness.
17:11Not this, oh, peace, love, hippie, can't we all get along?
17:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:18No, we can't.
17:19Realistic.
17:20We can still be kind.
17:21Right, right.
17:22Not everybody is, but we can at least try to be, right?
17:29We can control what we can do.
17:32I can't control what other people do.
17:34I can control how I react or act towards them.
17:37I can control myself most of the time.
17:40Every once in a while, we mess up.
17:42Everybody's entitled to a bad day.
17:46We are all entitled to bad off days.
17:50That's why Martin Luther King Jr., content of character and biblical grace comes in.
17:56People can have a bad day.
17:59You have to give them a second chance.
18:01Maybe they're the nicest person in the world, but they were an ornery SOB that one particular day.
18:10Because they didn't get any sleep and got up on the wrong side of the bed.
18:14They were out of coffee and they were just in a late mood that day, right?
18:20But other days, they're fine.
18:23In fact, in one of my books, I go into that where, is it Doug, I think is the character
18:30name,
18:31is that mean, ornery, nasty SOB, a mass hole, as I call them.
18:38And you've just got to avoid those people.
18:43If that's their character, just avoid them.
18:47Don't let them drag your good spirit down.
18:52That's right.
18:53That's right.
18:54That's so good.
18:54You know, I love that song that talks about giving grace to other people.
19:00You know, the mom on the bus and her kids are running wild.
19:03You know, instead of looking at her as being a mom with undisciplined kids, maybe she just
19:08came from the hospital where her husband's dying and she doesn't know how she's going
19:13to make it.
19:14I mean, he talks about different things.
19:16The old man who maybe wasn't paying attention and almost ran into you.
19:21Give him some grace because maybe his wife just passed away.
19:24You know, you talk about someone who's can't figure out what's going on.
19:30Maybe someone who's been bullied in school and everybody's just been attacking them.
19:34And it's just been one of those massive days.
19:41And they're just so unhappy and so sad.
19:44You know, sometimes all you have to do is just smile at somebody.
19:48Give them one of your smiles.
19:49I can't believe how many times I've heard somebody say to me, your smile today just made me feel
19:56so much better.
19:57I was having such an awful day.
19:59Thank you for that.
20:00Yeah.
20:01Or saying hi.
20:02You know, there's the story that a preacher told that he watched this guy, you know, every
20:09day he goes back and forth to work and to say, as he was passing him on the way, he
20:13said,
20:14hi, I hope you're having a good day.
20:16Anyway, the guy was going home that day to kill himself if nobody said hi to him.
20:21And all it took was one hi.
20:23I mean, that's no effort on our part just to say something like that.
20:28I share exactly a fictional kind of quasi same story in my The Book of Kennedy Project Carpe
20:38Kennedy, female lead, isn't quite feeling it that day, but she forces a smile, makes a smile
20:47to Sam, who is at the ice cream place with his daughters, divorcee with his daughters that
20:56day, and he's contemplating death.
20:59But that smile she gives him makes his day, and it's better.
21:06And he goes on to get remarried, and their child then goes on to cure cancer.
21:14What role did that one small smile play?
21:18It made all the difference in the world.
21:21Kennedy doesn't even think twice about it, but she saves a life and helps cure cancer.
21:30Small things matter.
21:33Yes.
21:34And you may never know the kindness that you show someone, how much of an effect that's
21:39going to have a ripple effect on them.
21:41A butterfly effect.
21:44To quote another movie, the butterfly effect.
21:47Exactly.
21:48That's exactly...
21:49That was a really intense show.
21:51I love those movies.
21:53Those were great, yeah, but it's like it's a wonderful...
21:57Yeah, it's like it's a wonderful life, too, right?
22:00All those movies are meant to be way over the top, overly dramatic, to make their point.
22:09We're not going to have a clearance to show us what life would be like without us, and nor
22:16are we going to have likely saved somebody from drowning who then goes on to be a war hero,
22:23or stop a pharmacist from poisoning a child which destroys two families.
22:29Small things, as you and I are saying, add up and matter.
22:34The sum total of your life will be small things that add to the big number on the other side
22:45of that equal sign in the equation of life and your entry in the book of life or not.
22:53Yeah, absolutely, and I love that you have that Kennedy character who says, even though I'm having
22:58a bad day, I'm going to try to smile, because that really does help your attitude, too.
23:06It's amazing that we can have a better day because we can laugh or we can smile.
23:15I mean, you know, Reader's Digest always talked about laughter being the best medicine, and
23:20it is.
23:20When you start laughing, even if you start fake laughing, you just start laughing, it starts
23:26changing things in your body.
23:28Yeah, and maybe the thing that helps you the most, especially when you're having a bad day,
23:36is to smile, is to just stop and say, that's it, I'm tired of having a bad day.
23:43I'm just going to smile, smile, everybody wonders what you're up to.
23:47Yeah, I also share my life philosophy in my books, I have my characters repeat, things
23:53could always be better, but they could often be worse, and that story, that forcing the
24:00smile came out of basically an episode I did with Bullseye the Clown, they could find that
24:07in my back catalog, Bullseye, named Bullseye because he was the target of bullying growing
24:14up.
24:15So he became Bullseye the Clown to talk about bullying, and indeed a story he gave when in
24:24Russia, none of them could speak the language, but they would smile and play with the rubber
24:31chickens and give away little rubber, right, and he could just tell the woman walking by
24:38pulling, right, next to nothing in the grocery cart, looking down and depressed, and waving
24:45and smiling and handing her a rubber chicken through the window, and to see her light up,
24:52just not a word exchanged, but that changed her life, I bet, that day.
24:58Absolutely, absolutely, you know, there's so much tragedy in the world, and if we're always
25:04looking at the bad things and the sad things, we're missing so much more, and I know they're
25:12there, I know it's terrible, we've got this war that's going on right now, and it's devastating
25:17on both sides, but we've got to look at, there is going to be good things coming out of this,
25:25things that we aren't going to know about, maybe for years, maybe we won't know, maybe
25:29our grandchildren will know, that, you know, I have an illustrator for my book, Baxter's
25:36Heart, and it's talking about the loss of a pet, and this book actually turned into be
25:41a book for adults, I wrote it for children to help them go through the grieving process
25:47to understand, and I'm surprised that the adults who are so glad I wrote it, they go,
25:53I had no idea what was going on, this helped me go through it so much, but getting back
25:58to my illustrator, she's from Ukraine, and she is actually in this new volume, volume
26:04six, that I'm accepting submissions for right now, the giving book, and she talks about the
26:10good things that has happened amongst all the terrible things going on in the war there,
26:14and it's still going on, you know, they still have raids, they still have blackouts, they
26:19still have Russia hitting their power plants, you know, we think, oh, we don't hear him
26:23more about it, so it must be over, it's not over for them, but she has such a great attitude,
26:29and I, she said something to me, and I said, is it okay if I put this in my book,
26:34and she
26:34was sure, so what I actually did is I went back over our conversations and took out the parts
26:39that were just relevant to what she said, and then I had her read it to okay it, I
26:45won't ever do anything without anybody's permission, and she said, I am so glad you
26:50did this, to be able to go back and see my thoughts and what went on through there, what
26:56a blessing, I didn't know I was going to bless her, I know that her story is going to
27:00bless everybody else, and it's a short story, but with all of this together, it just made
27:05so much perfect sense, and it's like, you just never know what your message, maybe you
27:12have a photograph with a quote, I have, in my, my first book, I have a gentleman who
27:18had an upside down ketchup bottle, and on it, he called it awesome sauce, and then he
27:22has a little image of him there, you know, one of the avatar images, and it was just so
27:27cute, I mean, it just makes you laugh looking at it, so you never know what you're going
27:32to say, the memoir, the photograph, the art piece you're doing, my grandson, who is
27:37autistic, he does anime work, and so he's in my books, and, and he loves it, it's like,
27:43wow, I'm published, you know, this is great to be able to give people a gift, and like
27:49I said, it's giving all the way, and we need, need to get from our heart every day, whether
27:53we get anything back or not, you know, that's, that's one thing I like about this book, for
27:58my part, I, the only thing I'm getting from it, is just the pure joy of being able to help
28:05other people get their message in a book, you know, I'm not getting any monetary value
28:12from it, but it's, I wouldn't give this book up for anything.
28:18Okay, well, time is flying, so we've talked about the giving, which is good, we've touched
28:26on, indeed, the you have great value in you, you are worthy, you are enough, you do matter,
28:32despite the Stuart Smalley idiocy, that being a joke, we, we mean it seriously, uh, we've
28:41talked about the giving books, the Baxter book, what other books have you got?
28:47Oh man, I, I have, probably can't list them all, but yeah, I'm not gonna ask you your
28:56favorite, because that's like asking a parent, which is your favorite child, but yeah, I don't
29:02have, my favorite is the next one I'm writing.
29:04Yeah, right, for marketing purposes, my favorite is the next one, I joke about that, I'm currently
29:11working on my fifth, my 13th overall, fifth in the Life and Living series, tentatively
29:18titled Loss, dealing with, you know, loss as part of life, and indeed, I've released, it's
29:28probably not coming out till May, but I've already, it's pretty much written, it'll just
29:32be a short story, so I can make it a 99 cent Kindle e-book exclusive, something inexpensive,
29:40right, we're all tight on money, so just a short story, it's mostly done, so I've been
29:50pre-promoting it, and indeed, it's real, most people, when they're promoting, like their
29:56film, right, oh, this is the best movie I've ever done, the best, my best work, and then
30:02next movie, they say the same, and next movie, they say the same, but, but when I say my next
30:09book is indeed, wow, so important, I, I, I really mean it, I'm not just saying it for
30:17marketing and promotion reasons, the same with what you're saying, I hear you, and we do,
30:23we get better with each one, we learn more, you know, every day we're alive, we're learning
30:28something different, we're learning more, we're continuing on, I know when I was a kid, the
30:34older people, and, and to me, you weren't old unless you were 70 years old, you know,
30:39when I was a kid, some people said 30 was old, it's like, no, 70 is old, and, but they
30:45would say, learn every day, don't quit learning, because when you quit learning, you start dying,
30:51and I thought that was just the weirdest thing I ever heard, but I totally understand it.
30:56Literally, the brain, the brain is kind of dying at that point, it, it, it, your body
31:03craves, yeah, your body craves caloric intake, your brain craves, uh, neural intake, yeah,
31:13there you go, exactly, exactly right, so.
31:17It's like five alive, more input, more input.
31:20Right, from Johnny Five, from Short Circuit, yeah, more input, very, I'm glad you made that
31:27reference, that's great, I love that movie, that was great, Johnny Five alive, yeah, so,
31:34I haven't said your name enough, thank you, L.S. Kirkpatrick, I appreciate it, do you have
31:41a website for people to find you?
31:44I do, it's L.S. Kirkpatrick.com, and it's the letter L, the letter S, Kirkpatrick.com,
31:51um, you can see all my books, almost all my books are on there, I've got a couple that
31:56I've done that I haven't got up there yet, um, and you can also find me on books.by,
32:02and the slash, L.S. Kirkpatrick, um, it has my new Volume 5 giving book on it.
32:10Wonderful, thank you, L.S. Kirkpatrick.
32:12I wish we had more time, I try to keep my, I try to keep my shows around 30 minutes,
32:19because I, it's the Twitter attention span, or TikTok, right, everybody, just give me the
32:26headline, well, details matter, people, the headline can be deceiving, the TikTok short
32:34leaves out a lot of important information you really need to know to have an informed opinion,
32:41opinion, and we are all entitled to our own opinion, you are not entitled to your own set of
32:49made-up facts, opinion matters if it's based on reality, or unicorn fart fantasy, I'd like to say, yes?
33:03This has been so much fun, I love this, gotta have more joy in the world.
33:09Yeah, I'm definitely not your average podcast host, and I, yeah, and I, and no, I don't suffer the sin
33:18of hubris,
33:19I go into hubris in my CTP3 and CTP4, Constitutional Educational Theory, I say that with all humility,
33:30others say that of me, I don't say that of myself, right? A big difference there.
33:39A lot of this stuff comes from above. I am just the vessel that types it out. I'm sure you
33:45probably
33:46feel the same way a lot of times.
33:48Oh, absolutely. I get woke up, my golden hour for writing is three o'clock. I get woke up, I
33:54have a
33:54pen and pad beside my bed, I write the idea down, and if I can't stop writing, I just get
34:00up and finish
34:01the story. You know, a lot of times I, I'm finishing the story as my husband's going off to work.
34:08And I have to refine it, you know, I just got the basics there. And if you want to say
34:13one thing,
34:13I don't know why I want to say this, it would feel like a way I need to say it.
34:16I found it a really
34:18great thing to do. So, in the 70s, we had this thing that was one word. You hold your finger
34:23up in the air,
34:23you hold it way up in the air, but I'll just put it down here for those that are watching
34:27the video.
34:50You point a finger, don't be wagging it, because three of your own are pointing right back at you.
34:55Are you able to self-reflect? Remember, the Bible says, remove the log from thine own eye first.
35:06Right? Michael Jackson.
35:08Remove the splinter.
35:09Exactly. Michael Jackson's I'm starting with the man in the mirror or Rick Springfield.
35:15Similarly, in his prayer song, I send a prayer to heaven for the chance to be
35:20a better man than the man I see in reflection in my mirror. Start with yourself. Do good,
35:31so good. Melania gets a lot of grief, but her Be Best program is a wonderful thing. Start with
35:41yourself. Be better. Yes?
35:45Yes, absolutely. Because that's who you're around all the time, and you have to give yourself grace. You
35:51make a mistake. You blow it that day. You're angry that day. So what? Give yourself grace. Forgive
35:58yourself. Love yourself. Tomorrow's a new day. The next few minutes are new minutes.
36:03Yep. Amen. I hear you there. That's...
36:07We've quoted some things that aren't from the Bible, but they are very biblical. I often
36:14talk about the Rush, not Limbaugh, but the rock group out of Canada, Free Will Song, right?
36:22If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. That's not of the Bible, but it
36:28is very biblical. Indeed. Either you choose or others choose for you. And you have to choose
36:37You might not like the rotten fruit that is born from your unwillingness to sow good fruit,
36:46right? Absolutely. Absolutely. Anyway, yeah. I've blown past the 30 minutes now. So thank
36:55you again, Alice Kirkpatrick. It was a great discussion. And oh, yes. Happy St. Patrick's Day to
37:03everyone. Even though Alice Kirkpatrick is Scottish. Take care. God bless, Alice. Thank you.
37:22March 17th. The pub is packed. Shamrocks on the wall. Leprechaun hat. I raise my pint. The color's neon bright.
37:36But my heart's still broken from last night.
37:40There's a tear in my green beer. Falling slow, crystal clear. While the bagpipes wail and the crouch is loud.
37:50I'm drowning sorrows in this
37:52emerald cloud. Slanted to the memories that won't disappear. There's a tear in my green beer.
38:06Me both said goodbye with a shamrock kiss. Left me with nothing but this empty bliss. Everyone's dancing, singing
38:21loud. I'm sitting here crying in the crowd. Irish eyes were smiling once upon a time. Now they're leaking like
38:34a busted line.
38:35One more pint. Maybe it'll mend. Or maybe I'll just cry till the bitter end. Other Irish eyes may be
38:44smiling. As for mine, they're crying.
38:51There's a tear in my green beer. Falling slow, crystal clear. To the ones we loved and the ones we
38:59lost. Raise your glass, no matter the cost.
39:05Falling tinted to the heartache that brought us here. There's a tear in my green beer.
39:18A tear in my green beer.
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