i'm really excited today also a little bit nervous but it's a big day i recently finished making
the documentary featuring everyone's favorite shepherdess tess here and she is going to watch
it for the first time today in its entirety miss willow has a new friend here too so hang on just
a minute we're going to be showing you a sneak peek of the film but we're going to talk to tess
here real quick about the filming experience and kind of what she's expecting here to see
and then hang on afterwards and we'll get her post-watching reaction i pitched this idea to
you to do this film and you agreed but what was that experience like during the filming
and all that how was that for you because we talked about some deep stuff yeah yeah
it was it was a little bit nerve-wracking because i was trying to imagine how i could let you in on
so many things of my life that i don't you know i kind of compartmentalized uh over over the period
of 70 years you know like oh that was that era and never does it meet the other era and that set
of friends and this you know and uh and a lot of things about my daughter and a lot of things about
what's going to happen with my farm and you know there were a lot of things that you brought up
uh you're a pretty good interviewer and i wondered how you're going to make something
of a story about that first of all i i don't think i would have trusted anybody else thank you
it's almost like a mosaic that you're taking bits and pieces and you're putting it all together to
express what i'm trying to convey about have have hope and how how how wonderful life is and how
you know what you can do and so you're taking all these bits and pieces and scraps of
what i've told you and so forth and putting that all together i have a lot of anticipation
how that's going to go the other thing is that i mean as times get more and more
crazy in the world it's really important what you're doing it's really important
that you know that people understand that that there's that you can still do wonderful things
you know that's really a cool thing and i i really commend justin for you know for putting that out
there to make an effort to make to make there be good news the whole thing has been kind of
a little bit weird to be on film and have all these questions and so forth but but it's okay
you know because i think that the overview of what we're trying to do here what we're trying to say
is you know that life is good so so now i want to see well what did you do what's the mosaic
look like i'm going to share with you the opening couple minutes of the film and then
maybe another scene later in the film throughout and then check back and we'll get tessa's reaction
to seeing her life story or 70 years of life summed up on a film in 40 minutes here we go
you can either give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day
or you can teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime
when i came to farming i could either grow meat and sell just the meat or i can
mentor people and have them help them to be successful in farming
and and in utilizing all the wonderful processes that they can use
earthworms can be your work crew and ruminants turn sunlight into meat
and into wool and into delicious milk
all of this can happen very effectively if they know how to read the seasons and farm
accordingly oh wow wow i can't believe how many aspects of everything that you put together and
and and explained everything from with everything else i mean it's a big story it's a big picture
yeah and and you you got all these things in there to to express adequately what you know
what i was telling you about and i mean it's wonderful i'm i'm so amazed i knew i liked it i
know justin liked it but you're the third piece in that triangle we all three have to like it
so you like it i do i like it i like it but i really like how you addressed
all my professional life very well and about the transition
my career here was good acupuncture was doing really well notice how the end of the tongue
is a little bit bigger and so that shows me that you've had a lot of mental activity lately and and
the dryness have you been sleeping not really this isn't for your makeup for your time okay
no i'm not sleeping well
i wound up being asked to be the chairman of the license board in the state of idaho and then
after doing that for a little while then idaho sent me to to washington dc to the federation of
regulatory agencies to represent idaho because we had a different way of doing things at that time
i wound up getting awarded a something that's important to me that governor gave me an award
for distinguished public service pretty soon i was the chairman of the national commission for
certification of acupuncture and oriental medicine in the united states so i'm going to you know this
is a little the little tool that i finder tool okay okay that's right so that one doesn't hurt
too much is that more tender or is that they're tender in a different way your ears telling me
that your shoulder is giving you trouble oh my but yet when i ask about your knee it says well yeah
yeah well my shoulders are way more painful in my knee yeah yeah yeah i see that let's see what
we can do to fix that and that was a very very big job and very involved and and very enjoyable
a lot of travel but there was a lot of strain involved in that too
and then the other thing was i was trying to figure out what is it gonna look like to see
myself ride a horse i've never seen myself ride a horse and i've been wondering about that whether i
whether i looked as bad as some people that i see ride you know what do you think and well
i think my horse and i do okay there are a couple of things i could do better
anyway thank you so much for doing this and doing such a artistic yeah it was my pleasure my honor
and thank you for participating and having the confidence in me to tell your story
yeah yeah thank you if you guys would like to see the full length version of this it's going to be
launching on abundance plus exclusively friday november 12th if you are not a member of abundance
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commission for that thank you in advance and i look forward to seeing you guys on abundance plus