Easter Monday on the Welsh coast, nachos, fasting, rescued lambs, chants, and a pocket of seaside bhakti. A slow, joy-soaked wander with Mark and Maria, greeting the day, laughing at our own quirks, and bowing to the quiet presence that feeds the heart. Simple stories, small miracles, open hands. If this meets you where you are, breathe with us, chant a little, and carry the sweetness into your day.
how are we doing
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:we started to meet
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:how are we doing one yeah
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:hey Harry Ball
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:I must stay
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:I must stay
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:peace be with you and upon you Easter Monday
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:I'm Mark and I'm Maria
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:this is juicy magic on the daily
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:now let me see if I can get the name of this little
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:the cutest little town ever
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:um
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:oh it's not straight
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:it's okay
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:let go of your Virgo and perfectionism
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:okay I will
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:it's called Porth dinlan
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:this beautiful little harbor here
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:this morning was cold and rainy
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:and uh what a glorious Easter Monday
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:we celebrate the rejuvenation rebirth reincarnation
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:resurrection of life and of Christ
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:in a beautiful setting
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:and to celebrate our ha ha
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:we have to share a little funny
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:we went to this little pub and uh
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:my God they had vegetarian chili and nachos
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:ha ha
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:and the container
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:which is actually propping up the phone right now
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:is like a tub
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:they brought it and I ordered that
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:she ordered the what did you order
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:you have the vegetarian chili
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:I had the normal vegetarian chili with
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:with Kaiser we taught the young Welsh pub guy the word
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:German word for cheese
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:uh you know
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:rennet free cheese and um
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:and my goodness what a way to celebrate the
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:after the fast that we had
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:yeah the end of the fast yeah
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:so we're very full
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:ha ha very
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:very full and actually in so many ways um
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:you know one of the benefits
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:there's so many benefits to
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:to fasting um
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:I'm trying to fast from using curse words this year
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:and I'm also trying to fast from saying um or ah
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:or like or
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:you know all these
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:or anyway or anyway and to be more articulate
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:but one of the reasons that we fast
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:is that it does help us relate more
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:in just a small way because we've chosen to be hungry
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:there are many people that aren't choosing to be hungry
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:and so it helps us in some small way
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:relate to people that are really hungry or thirsty
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:and of course
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:we're most hungry and thirsty for spiritual
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:uh food
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:spiritual mana
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:spiritual wisdom and inspiration
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:and divine nectar and ecstatic love for god
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:that's pretty yummy
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:back to the nachos
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:I mean there was sour cream
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:we just did some chanting
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:to some sheep that were stuck in your fence
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:yeah it's really nice
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:we came across these two little baby sheep
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:are they called ewes or who's
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:I don't know I have to look that up
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:sorry for any of the sheep people out there
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:well a lamb
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:I think is a is a grown lamb
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:there's a word for the little cute ones
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:they're quite sweet they're like
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:they come up to us they go
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:and they were they were lost and stuck
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:and they were separated from their mother
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:from fence there's a big busy road
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:so we stopped and made
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:another lady came and called the farmer
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:we waited with the sheep until the farmer came
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:to put them over the fence
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:we didn't wanna do it the wrong way in case
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:you know you could break a leg or something yeah
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:we're not experienced but the farmer just came
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:and he grabbed them by the scruff and threw them over
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:and they were fine but it was better he did it
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:they were his sheep so
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:but he was very thankful
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:and that was such a great way to start the day
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:we we circled Mount Snowden through the rain
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:we came out to this beautiful area called Porthdin Land
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:and um
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:we're in the pub having a great time celebrating our
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:our the end of Easter weekend
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:and this is the time to be joyous we
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:related to the suffering and now the miracle
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:I think about doubting Thomas a lot
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:how was your fast
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:strangely easy but I was very very dizzy and tired
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:I think I
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:I need to fast longer to really feel the energy kick in
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:like you do
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:but you're faster in many
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:many things so yeah
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:my my
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:my
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:my sort of jitteriness kicked in on Day 3 on Saturday
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:yeah or maybe it was Sunday
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:we were gonna go all the way to Monday
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:but yeah maybe we can do a seven day fast at some point
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:sure but not while on the road
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:it's really hard no
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:no we're driving
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:going places not medical advice or health advice
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:but
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:um it was a good start
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:there's something that I missed a lot
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:usually during a fast it's so nice to have a bathtub
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:where you can have an Epsom salt bath
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:hot bath yeah
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:and also to sweat
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:and I think what we would do
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:you need to be near a bathroom or toilet for this
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:but I would do a saltwater flush
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:cause I still had some stuff in me and my bowels
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:you know even day 3
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:and a saltwater flush you can look it up
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:it really helps clean you out
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:especially peanut butter
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:so you need to be near a good toilet for that
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:but it cleans you out prepares you for the
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:for the
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:you want as much emptying as possible
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:it's kind of like when we come before the Lord
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:we wanna be as empty as possible
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:receive his what he's by thy will
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:not mine what's he's
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:what he's ready to give us by Grace
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:yeah but I think I've passed away
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:my clinginess to my material stuff a bit
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:because you're lighter much lighter yeah
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:yeah I feel the joy
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:she's smiling again yeah
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:there was some wailing about the bed
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:oh and the couch
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:and the mattress and the mattress yeah
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:she's got a bad back so I understand
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:I'm not making fun of her
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:do you know um
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:as your body gets older it only gets tougher
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:yeah
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:but I'm glad she's I I know I will be fine yeah
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:you'll be super fine
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:keep to the straight and narrow
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:yeah
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:so we wanna say hello from Wales
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:beautiful Port Port in Layen
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:and sorry to all the Gaelic or Welsh speakers
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:if I'm butchering that beautiful
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:they have such beautiful names and words for things
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:super long
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:crazy looking words that are difficult for us
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:Anglos to Anglos Anglos Saxons
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:people speaking English to modern English
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:very difficult for us to pronounce
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:but boy do they sound wonderful
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:even the name for Mount Ston was like Eir Wistta
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:it just sounds more magical
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:um we got some guests in the video
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:there we go
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:such a nice place to do to
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:to see there's so many people out for the holiday
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:we want to wish you a beautiful magical Easter Monday
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:love from Mark and Maria
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:do some magic on a video