The Elders Knew Something We Forgot | The Lost Skills Modern Life Left Behind

Maggie (00:01.973)
One day we're going to be the grandmothers, and when our children and grandchildren look back, what will they know because they knew us? Somewhere along the way, generations of knowledge stop being passed down. Maybe ours is a generation that starts passing it forward again. Welcome to Women Folk Revival, where we are deeply rooted and wildly intentional. I'm Aggie and

Meara (00:29.698)
And I'm Mira. And I'm already the grandmother over here almost twice now. But you know what I've been thinking about is we live in this really weird time where we can just pop online and ask Google or chat almost not almost anything. You know, how do I grow this? How do we preserve that? How do we make bread?

Maggie (00:32.663)
Ha ha ha

Meara (00:53.164)
What plant is this? And we'll get the answer, but that is just not the same as asking our ancestors who knew. You know, I can find the recipe online, but the recipe can't tell me why my grandmother made it, who taught my grandmother how to made it, and whether she started making it because there were six mouths to feed and hardly anything in the pantry, you know, what she changed because one year something didn't grow or who was standing behind her when she learned and what was happening in her life.

Maggie (01:00.547)
Not

Meara (01:23.088)
when that recipe became part of her family. That is different. That is a story. That's that's the lifeline, you know?

Maggie (01:33.815)
Yeah.

I think about that all the time. I think if only when I were younger would I have realized everything that I realize now and I would have sourced all that information. I would have spent my days after school going over to my neighbor's house or my grandmother's house and and learning these things and making a recipe book from what from their recipes and and writing down everything that they they knew. I

Okay.

You know, and obviously we can't do that. We can't go back in time. So my goal now is to is to be that source for not just my children, but also also my grandchildren. That's when I think things are gonna get really dreamy, is when I finally have grandchildren and life has slowed down more for myself and I can really, you know, just dive full in and immerse myself in in doing all of this and learning all of this.

Meara (02:20.628)
Maggie (02:36.096)
and I'll be able to show them along the way.

Meara (02:42.529)
Yeah.

That's gonna get cut. No. Well, when I started thinking about what I've learned from somebody without even realizing I was being taught, I immediately thought about my mom.

Maggie (02:47.502)
Do you ever think about that?

Meara (03:01.077)
So my dad had a major heart attack in 1990, and I remember staying with my family because my mom stayed with him constantly and took care of him. You know, she worked in early intervention for years, she had her master's in psychology, and she always really was very knowledgeable when it came to medical terminology and understanding what was going on. But looking back now, that wasn't the biggest thing that I remember. I remember that.

Meara (03:28.781)
that she had stayed with him, right? So it wasn't about okay, she has all this information to keep him safe and keep the doctors, you know

being being able to talk to the doctors and discussing things back and forth. It's just that she stayed, she paid attention, she had questions. She was his advocate. She made sure he was taken care of. And I believe my mom is the reason that he survived. And then my grandma had a stroke, that was in nineteen ninety. And then years down, my grandma had a stroke when I was in high school and she ended up in the nursing home, right? And I just remember us being there all the time.

I mean, all the time I would go with her. I would help change my grandmother. We would sit with her. We would talk with her. We even bought a van so that we could take her places and shopping. And we would just literally sit there for hours and talk. And so even when my mom physically wasn't there, she was still always checking. How was she doing? What has changed? What's going on? Call me if anything happens. You know, she made sure people caring for my grandmother knew that somebody was

Always paying attention, and I didn't understand the depth of that when I was younger because I wasn't sitting there thinking, my mom's teaching me how to care for an aging parent, right? I was just going with her to see my grandma, but I was learning, and this is exactly what we're talking about today because some of the most important things that I had learned from my mom, she never actually taught me. I just watched her live them, right?

Maggie (04:48.878)
Mm.

Meara (05:03.762)
This is always so emotional and now I'm carrying them with me.

Maggie (05:08.855)
No, and I and that's that's a beautiful thing and I think today, even when we are present in that kind of a situation, we're almost lost in a sense of of what to do. And we don't question what the doctors are doing and what they're what they're giving us and and that's so I I didn't even really think of today's episode

Meara (05:20.215)
We are very Yeah.

Maggie (05:37.495)
and that aspect, but you're so right. We don't know how to care for people and we do, you know, mm obviously it was a little different in your sense with your grandma grandmother because she had a stroke so she needed a little bit of different care. But, you know, our elders did

Meara (05:39.436)
Yeah.

Meara (05:48.779)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (05:52.141)
Sure.

Maggie (05:56.707)
did used to to join us and live with us and and they don't anymore. now my grandma saw her all the time 'cause she lived down the road. So it didn't really matter that we weren't living in the same household.

Meara (06:11.255)
Mm-hmm.

Maggie (06:13.442)
But you know, and when she took out she had cancer, so it was not it was not a very long time that that she even had in in the hospital. But I don't remember I I never had that experience of having to really take care of anybody. And I do think about that with my parents, you know, I wanna know how to take care of them and how to really be present and how to make sure that everything's happening right.

Meara (06:24.565)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (06:31.754)
Uh-huh.

Meara (06:43.371)
Well well that's the thing is many, many, many years ago, nursing homes didn't even exist. You know? People weren't just like, we're gonna make money off this. Let's learn how to stick people in homes, right? I've been there. I was a medical assistant. I so I saw it from the doctor's office aspect. I was a certified nurse aid assistant, so I took care of

you know, patients in the or clients in the in the nursing home. And then I became an LPN and worked in the nursing home before I did my independence. But I saw firsthand these people, you know, with the way society is today, we just stick in the home because now they're a part of the problem, right?

I have to work 247. I have to take care of my kids. I don't have to time to take care of my parents. And and for some people it's just it's a burden. Other for other people, it's not. Like for us, it was never a burden. but I've seen people firsthand on these on these people's deathbeds fighting over the will. And even after they've passed away, you know, you're still able to hear after you passed away for a little bit. So it's just kind of like I never understood.

why we had to argue over money and who's getting what, like is that really what this is about here? why are we not emotional over the fact that they're passing away and and remembering who this person was and the history that they had.

Maggie (08:02.222)
Right. Mm-hmm.

Meara (08:14.251)
behind them of where they came from and how that is now gone. You know, you can't get that back because knowledge has a history. And that's one thing that I always had taken with me was, man, I can't sit there and talk to my dad. The older I get, the more I'm like, I really need my dad, you know, because

Our elders carry that wisdom that as you age you need. And so elders are so important to me. Now

My mom is one of those people where she's so independent, like she will never let me do anything for her. She's in her mid-70s. She's gonna kill me if she hears me saying this. But, you know, she's very independent, still drives around, still does things with her friends. she always makes sure that she stays busy. She's very natural.

Homeopathic, her house looks like a pharmacy. Like she knows her stuff, right? So if I were to ever ask her to come live with me, it would be an absolutely not. Even if it gets to the point where she has to be put somewhere, she would never want me to be burdened, even though I don't think that that would be a burden. That's just not who she is because of the society that we've lived in. That's just not how she sees things happening. so for me, that would be hard and difficult. I would just have to learn how to.

Maggie (09:25.058)
Right.

Meara (09:33.898)
angle myself better where okay now I'm gonna go see her. So like now, even though she's still perfectly fine, I make sure that I see her once a week, right? just me and her, just so we can talk about things, history, past. and even though I was adopted, I still love hearing about her family history and where she came from. because I'm not not only does it make you closer to that person, but it gives you that knowledge of

Maggie (09:53.73)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (10:00.853)
knowing where it came from and who carried it before and before you and, you know, why they did it that way and what happened in the lives around it.

Maggie (10:09.688)
Well, and and g even the fact that you were adopted, it's still part of your story and where you came from, you know. Knowing everything that your mother went through and her life beyond that put her on a path to say, Yes, I want to adopt and then her adopting you. So that's absolutely your your history as well.

Meara (10:15.051)
Yeah. It's part of my history. Yeah.

Meara (10:30.519)
Right.

Meara (10:33.951)
It is. And just because my grandmother wasn't my biological grandmother, that woman had a green thumb. She could touch the soil and something dead would come back alive. I kid you not. So it doesn't matter where you come from as well. It just matters how you've been taught. What did grandma know about her soil? When did she know that it was time to plant certain things? And what did she do when bugs got into everything? Right? You know.

And what did she make when she suddenly had 50 tomatoes on the counter and who taught her how to do that? So you know, it's all about carrying that forward and teaching our kids because you can't ask Google and chat, you know, well, tell me your history, right? Like how how did you know that this is what was supposed to happen at this time? And plus you have you have a story behind it. And

Maggie (11:27.502)
Right.

Meara (11:30.251)
And that has meaning and that's how you remember these things and how you pass things down down the line.

Maggie (15:05.857)
Mm. So now that we're becoming the elders, you know, you do you start to realize that at some point there's not going to be an older person there, you know, to ask. It has to be us. It has to be the ones

Meara (15:09.933)
Mm-hmm.

Maggie (15:26.123)
You know, and if nobody ever taught us, we have to become the women who relearn it. And then our children don't have to start from zero.

Meara (15:38.881)
Yeah, we need to learn.

Maggie (15:39.382)
And it's and it's a struggle and like you said, we're constant you know, I'm constantly Googling. I'm constantly going on ChatGPT and and as much as I don't like technology, as much as I don't like AI, I mean it it does it does scare me. you know, how advanced it could become.

Meara (15:58.648)
Mm.

Maggie (16:02.923)
But but it has been wonderful and it's and it's even talking to me like, yeah, they did this. Society did this and and I'm like, Yeah. but it's I don't know

Meara (16:12.673)
Yeah.

Maggie (16:20.181)
I don't know where I would be without it. And I'm and I'm using it in a way where I don't want to become dependent on AI for for this. So I'm finding out the books that I should get that I can have on hand and I can have all this information if the system does go down, you know, and to get myself away from being on a screen and using artificial intelligence.

Meara (16:28.844)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (16:43.489)
Mm-hmm.

Maggie (16:50.095)
as wonderful as it can be, it's not something that I want for the long haul. It's it's a short term thing and then I want books and then want hands on experience and then I want to pass it down. I don't want to teach my children how to search it up on the internet. I want them just to be able to know or to source a book.

Meara (16:50.795)
Yeah.

Meara (16:59.095)
Right.

Meara (17:05.676)
Yeah.

Meara (17:09.687)
Mm.

Because because I've learned from you how to do that. And that's why I want to go back and work in a nursing home or assisted living. I never really wanted to go back and work in a nursing home assist. I don't like doing bedside. Like I'm kinda wanting to move away from that. But I miss my I miss my clients. I want that's the one thing about

Maggie (17:15.307)
Yeah. Yes.

Meara (17:36.514)
working there is you can just gain so much knowledge from them. Sometimes after I did my med passes, I would just if I didn't have anything else to do, go sit and chat with them. I mean, because a lot of them don't have people that come and visit them and they would just tell you everything about their history and how they grew up. And it would paint this picture in your mind and and and it's like, what did they know that we don't, you know, not just what could they do, but

Maggie (17:42.573)
Yeah.

Maggie (17:47.285)
Mm.

Maggie (17:52.608)
And that's

Meara (18:02.145)
What did they understand? You know, they knew how to make things last and they knew how to go without it s a lot of the times, and they knew how to wait and how to stretch food and out of absolutely nothing. And I've and we've lost ourselves and we've made ourselves too dependent on on

Maggie (18:04.097)
Yeah.

Maggie (18:11.634)
And miraculously make something out of nothing, you know? Yeah.

Meara (18:26.153)
society and everything now is make it faster, make it easier, have it delivered, pay someone to do it. don't wait. You can't be uncomfortable and you know, it's just like

Maggie (18:30.305)
Yes.

Maggie (18:40.267)
And I won't say I won't say we've made ourselves. I don't believe that we made ourselves. I you know, I don't think that people genuinely realized what was happening along the way. but now in this day and age, I think we're all well aware of it. So if you choose to stay in that world, then you are absolutely, you know, the cause.

Meara (18:52.588)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (18:58.989)
Yeah.

Maggie (19:09.247)
if you're not being proactive about figuring out how just how to live. How to live without being dependent on on anyone else or any any kind of system. You know? It's

Meara (19:15.34)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (19:24.075)
Yeah. And a lot of people out there are gonna be like, I'm not I'm not I'm keeping my washing machine. I'm not going down to the river to wash my clothes, you know, and I I'm not sh I would love to. Washer.

Maggie (19:32.426)
I we just bought a brand new we just bought a brand new washing machine. I wouldn't mind doing those things either. And I've talked to my husband about it.

In no way, shape or form are we are we going to do that full time or do it overnight. You know, these are things that we wanna experience and get you know, do the hands on experience and know how to do in case there ever comes a point where we have to. That way it's not gonna be like a

Meara (19:55.501)
Mm-hmm.

Maggie (20:03.713)
When I first started telling my husband this. He was like he was like if a system falls down, he was like, You just adapt. He was like, Can't you just adapt? And I'm like, Of course I can adapt. I mean, look, you know, I've adapted so much already, and that's and that's totally fine for me, and it's totally fine for him, and it makes sense to us, but it doesn't for a lot of other people. you know, but I told him I was like, Imagine how much easier it'll be if we already know how to do those things going into it. So yeah, I don't want to go down to the

Meara (20:31.145)
Exactly. Exactly.

Maggie (20:33.657)
creek and wash all of her clothes, not to mention that creek water is is polluted to an extent so gross. And I just bought a brand new washing machine. I'm not against I'm not against anything modern. It's not about going completely back in time, but it's about bringing that old time information that's important into the future with us. And not just throwing it away.

Meara (20:39.905)
Yeah.

Meara (20:47.095)
Sure. Mm-hmm.

Meara (20:58.849)
Well, think it also I also think so I also think that it makes you more appreciative of what you have, you know, because everything wasn't better back then. Women worked incredibly hard, busted our butts just like we're doing now, just on the opposite end of society compared to what it was doing. And people people suffered and there was fewer choices. you know

Maggie (21:05.801)
Absolutely.

Maggie (21:13.803)
And did it have a say in almost anything, you know?

Maggie (21:22.157)
Yeah. And even a lot of those, you know, old time, you know, herbal remedies or whatever were severely dangerous, you know, and ended up long term killing people because, you know, they didn't know the long term effects. They just saw the short term and and we know those things now. We also know that a lot of these herbs

Meara (21:40.651)
Yeah.

Maggie (21:43.339)
do better for you than modern medicine does. Modern medicine are now is like the new, you know, snake oil.

Meara (21:47.851)
Yeah, well

It is. And being a nurse in the nursing field, I do believe that modest modern medicine definitely saves lives when you need it, right? there's there are things about modern life I'm incredibly grateful for and I'm not I'm not trying to go backwards, but I do think that pro progress has trade-offs. And sometimes I wonder what if some of the inconveniences that we've worked so hard to remove were actually teaching us something, you know? so

Maggie (21:58.476)
it has a place, absolutely.

Meara (22:20.982)
I feel like sometimes inconvenience is another person needing you. You know, your aging parent walking really slow through the store. You know what I'm saying? Like and little kid wanting to help you cook, like your kids when you do it twice as fast without them. all those things take time. and we're obsessed

Maggie (22:35.394)
Yeah.

Meara (22:42.422)
We're living in a society and in a world where we're obsessed with saving that time. But what are we saving all this time for if we really don't have time for each other? Like what what sense does that make? Because maybe some of these things that we've been calling interruptions to our life are actually life.

Maggie (22:59.679)
Yeah. And a lot of these things that we've been talking about relearning, you know, these practical skills. It's it's more than that. It's it's patience, resourcefulness, oral storytelling. You you don't hear people telling stories anymore, you know? Seasonal awareness, knowing your neighbors. Now I know I know some of my neighbors out here. I don't I don't know them.

Meara (23:13.474)
Yes.

You do not. Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Meara (23:26.476)
We don't wanna know ours. We're hermits. Recluses here.

Maggie (23:31.955)
Sure, and and my husband and I are like that to an extent too, but I miss that yes. And I I miss that, and it it's hard nowadays because people are kind of all over the place and there's a lot of crazy ideas and, you know, people thinking that they're light bulbs or cats or whatever else. So you never know what you're gonna get.

Meara (23:36.0)
Mm-hmm. Emergencies happen.

Meara (23:57.473)
What?

Maggie (23:58.817)
Well yeah. Haven't you there was a school not too far from here where they made like special allowance for a kid who thought he was a dog or something. I I mean it's it's nuts. So you never know what you're gonna get as far as your neighbors. But they're you know

Meara (24:09.39)
Hang on.

Meara (24:12.93)
Wow. We've really gone out there.

Okay, well, it is. And you know, now that I'm a mom and grandmother, this hits different for me because we talk so much about what we're gonna leave our children with, you know, whether it's money, a house, property, things. And my husband and I have talked about this with our children. And that's not what we're wanting them thinking about when

Maggie (24:18.846)
It's a reality, right?

Yeah.

Maggie (24:32.02)
Yeah.

Meara (24:43.052)
They think about what we have left behind for them. Sure, I mean, if there's money, fine and things, fine, but that's not what we're trying to build. We don't want to spend life asking, what are we gonna leave our children? We wanna ask, what am I leaving in my child? Right? What do they know because of us? Was it something we grew or can they take care of themselves?

Maggie (25:04.716)
Right.

Meara (25:09.634)
Do they know how to use the land around them? Do they know how to care for somebody else? Or sit beside someone who's hurting, you know, without needing to fix them and take on a whole nother task that's gonna just drag them down? and do they know how to stay and show up? Because money gets spent and things break and houses get sold, but knowledge just keeps on moving and stories keep moving with it. So if I

Maggie (25:35.532)
Yes. Absolutely.

Meara (25:37.718)
If I teach my child how to grow something and she teaches her daughter and someday her daughter standing in a garden doing something I once showed her mother, that's not just skills, you know, there's also a story attached to it. Grandma taught mom and maybe someday grant grandma taught grandma and suddenly something that could have ended has kept moving.

Maggie (25:57.783)
Yes. I love that. You know, and and thinking too, you know, if our if our children someday tell stories about us and know about what they've learned from us. You know, think to yourself, what what do I hope my child is gonna say? You know. Mommy taught me how to sit down and watch a television show. Or mommy taught me

Meara (25:59.683)
Yeah. Yeah.

Meara (26:08.962)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Meara (26:16.94)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Meara (26:23.958)
R right. How to scroll on my phone. By

Maggie (26:27.07)
Yeah. Or mommy taught me how to to plant little seeds and and grow food from them and wonderful

Meara (26:31.672)
By packages from Amazon. Mm-hmm.

Maggie (26:38.666)
You know, we've got these sunflowers in our yard right now that are like over ten feet tall. They're ginormous and they're wonderful and lovely and and it's so exciting and it's fun to have that stuff growing and then watch the wildlife that comes in as well. And then learning about that wildlife. There's a whole world that that you can teach about. And what wonderful Yeah, go ahead.

Meara (26:39.98)
I know it's poisonous.

Meara (26:44.419)
Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Meara (27:00.46)
Waiting to be explored. Mm-hmm. That's fun.

Meara (27:07.948)
No, say it. What wonderful web.

Maggie (27:08.672)
What wonderful experiences to share with your children. And then for them to have to be able to pass that on. You know, the real beauty in the world. That's where it's at.

Meara (27:12.493)
Mm-hmm.

Meara (27:21.132)
Yeah. my husband and I were just talking about planting sunflower seeds along his pole barn. we did end up moving. We did end up getting our space and we do have some acreage. And just watching the kids run around. I'm always so emotional. It's just so different, you know? Like we're here now, we can explore so much in our yards and

And now that I've become a grandma on top of that, it's not just hypothetical for me anymore because there's already another generation here. Man, I feel old. And another little one coming. So when you say, What will our children and grandchildren know because they knew us? I really need to think about that now because I'm old and mine are already here. No, I'm not old. But my you know, my grandkids are already here and and that's

Maggie (28:11.884)
They're not all.

Meara (28:15.554)
That's my legacy and not just what we leave for them, but what we leave inside of them. So so yeah, and there's there's hopeful parts of all of this. Some some of this isn't lost yet. And there's the people carrying it are still there. There's still people there, like our parents and some of our grandparents and aunts and uncles and neighbors, like you were just saying, and people who remember a different way of doing things and we can still ask them.

Maggie (28:33.802)
Yep.

Meara (28:44.866)
That's why I'm grateful I have my husband who's from another country because the way they do things is totally different than how we do things here. And maybe we need to just start asking different questions, not just, How do you make this? you know, just but like who taught you and and why did your family make it that way? And what do you remember about learning it that way? And, you know, what did they grow and what traditions disappeared and and you know, just kind of

Maggie (28:50.572)
Yeah.

Meara (29:13.068)
Just all these questions that keep coming to my mind. There's so many of you know. And what do you know that nobody has ever asked you to teach them? Because we can research instructions later, but we can't search for the story online when they're no longer here to tell it. And that's that's the part that's worth getting to know.

Maggie (29:34.329)
did you did you hear that there are AI companies that are buying books and destroying them?

Meara (29:43.394)
No, I did not.

Maggie (29:45.108)
I don't that's just something that I quickly heard and I don't know a whole lot about it. But things like that are very possible. It's possible for all of that information to be taken away from us. The access to the internet and artificial intelligence. What are you going to do when all of that is gone? What are our children going to do? What are future generations going to do if all that information disappears?

Meara (30:09.528)
That's why knowledge is important and a pen and a pen s pen and paper is always important. That's one thing my dad always told me. He was a poet. He always told his family members and he always told me. Always keep a pen on hand and paper and write things down so that you remember them. Because he too told me that's

Maggie (30:26.367)
People don't write anymore.

Meara (30:27.722)
One day things won't be here. And and this is I believe all of this that we have been discussing is the heart of women folk revival, you know, because we're not trying to recreate the past. We're just asking what was worth keeping that we can bring with us now. And what did the women do before us? What did they know? And stuff, you know, land, family, community. And maybe revival looks like planting something or learning grandma's recipe or preserving food.

Maggie (30:36.459)
Mm-hmm.

Maggie (30:41.109)
Yes.

Meara (30:58.167)
You know.

Maggie (30:58.791)
I think yeah. I think the heart of revival is taking that old useful information and bringing it into the modern world and finding a way where it meshes together beautifully and and then creating a way where we can go we can continue going forward with it.

Meara (31:07.779)
Mm.

Meara (31:13.837)
Yeah.

Meara (31:21.698)
Mm-hmm.

Yes, I agree. So, Maggie, you started this conversation with the question when our children and grandchildren look back at us, what will they know because they knew us? And maybe that's the question we leave everybody with this week. I do not want to cry. I hate this. Because someday somebody might be

Maggie (31:34.699)
They knew us.

Maggie (31:41.206)
Yes. And don't and don't it's it's a hard question. And even for Mir and I who have already started this journey, you know, we're still thinking, My goodness, am I am I doing enough? Am I teaching them enough?

Meara (31:51.822)
It is.

Meara (32:01.23)
Am I doing it right?

Maggie (32:01.258)
Am I teaching yes, am I doing it right? Am I teaching them too many bad habits along with everything else that I'm trying to teach them? and it's it's a hard, it's a hard road to go down and it's a hard pill to swallow if you look at it and think, man, I haven't taught my kids anything. And it's never too late. It's never too late to change that, and it's never too late to leave something behind and to change their perspectives and to change their stories of you.

Meara (32:15.18)
It's very scary.

Meara (32:20.483)
Mm-hmm.

Maggie (32:31.231)
and what they've learned from you.

Meara (32:33.634)
And don't doubt yourself because I have two adult children who went to you know Montessori and then I have

My two elders now we have are in school and I just pulled my kindergartner the other day. I I'm just I'm winging it. I'm just gonna homeschool her. So that is very scary. so don't just don't doubt yourself. You know, make sure you have people along the way that are there for you that can help you and Maggie's helping me with the homeschool thing. So, you know, and just just do it.

We don't have to live exactly like generations before us, and we definitely don't have to pretend to pretend that the past was perfect because it was not. Just don't let everything disappear. And ask the question while the person is still there to answer it. Learn the thing. Well, their hands can still show you. Write down the recipe. But write down the story behind it too. And ask who taught them. Ask that they remember.

Ask what they remember, and then when it's your turn, you teach for somebody else. Because maybe somewhere along the way, generations of knowledge did not stop being passed down, but that doesn't mean the story has to end there. Maybe yours really can be the generation that starts passing it forward again. So that one day when our children and grandchildren are asked, How did you know that? They can say, Someone I love taught me. And to me, that's

A pretty beautiful thing to leave behind. And speaking of where we're going from here, Maggie somehow, it has already been six months since we started women folk revival, which is kind of crazy. So next week we are doing something a little different. We are gonna sit down for where we are now. Six months of women folk revival. Where were we when we started this?

Maggie (34:09.557)
Crazy. I can't believe it.

Meara (34:24.94)
Where are we now? What has changed in our lives? What have we learned? And what did we think women folk revival was gonna be? And what it has actually become and where we are going from here. No big lesson, just us sitting down six months later and talking about where this whole thing has taken us. And I have a feeling we're gonna realize a lot more has changed than we think. And before you go, if today's conversation made you think another woman,

of another woman, send this episode to her. And if you've been coming back and listening with us each week, don't forget to like the episode, follow Women Folk Revival, and share it on your favorite platform. We'll be back next week. And until then.

Maggie (34:51.147)
Ha ha ha.

Maggie (35:04.979)
Stay rooted and stay wild.

Meara (35:07.937)
Stay wild.