From KCRW, this is here be monsters.

This is here be monsters.

So you know it was about eight years ago when I started this show. I was kind of thinking of like ways to address some of my post college anxieties which were strong.

Getting out into the world and being expected to know things was was actually a really heavy

weight on me and I was kind of having a lot of trouble sleeping in that year.

So I kind of started this show as a way to address those things, right? The way I've been thinking

up in lately is to kind of like make a public park almost right like a really beautiful place

that that doesn't have any walls around it there's plenty of beautiful places in the

world that are all surrounded by tall walls but I want to kind of do something a little bit more accessible to people, right?

And so that's how this podcast started.

And it was, yeah, it was meant to be this beautiful space that people could come experience with me.

And there's a little bit of irony in making a project like that because oftentimes in the pursuit

of making something beautiful and calming and accessible.

Well, you can become un-beautiful and un-calm and inaccessible.

And so it's kind of this thing I've been feeling lately in my body again where I've re-emerged into some of that insomnia that I was feeling before I started making the show and I've been feeling this like new tightness in my neck and

I've been slouching more. It's been getting me thinking a lot about my body. I think

it's really hard to talk about body sometimes though because it's our sole point of reference right like you can't step outside of your body at least not not usually right like you can't step outside of your body and look at it.

So unrelated to all this, I recently picked up this book that was written about 2,000 years ago

by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

And so this book I picked up is called Meditations.

And it was actually just his personal journals

that he didn't ever intend to publish to anyone

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