Hey - - it's Uncle Tommy...
You know, most days I don't feel like 88 is really that old.
I wake up, I feel pretty good, I've got things to do and people to talk to and products to sell. The number just doesn't feel like it means that much.
But every once in a while, something comes up that reminds me of just how much the world has changed in my lifetime. And then I think, okay, maybe 88 is actually a lot.
Here's a good example.
I grew up in a little town in Alberta, Canada. And I mean little... we didn't have much.
And one day, when I was about ten or eleven years old, my brother Stan and I were just walking down the road (doing nothing, getting into trouble, the usual) when a car pulled over.
A stranger leaned out the window and said, "Hey, you boys go to church?"
We said no.
He said, "You want to go to camp?"
We said sure, why not.
He drove us home, knocked on my mother's door, and said he'd like to take her boys to camp for a week through the church.
My mother asked how much it cost. He said it was free. She said, "Take them."
Just like that, man. No questions, no background check. No two-week email thread with the camp director. A complete stranger knocked on her door and said "I'd like to take your children away for a week" and she basically said "God bless you, sir, they're your problem now."
(Different times, man. Very different times.)
And I want to tell you, that was one of the best weeks of my life.
Not because of the activities or the other kids or any of that.
But because it was the first time I had ever seen an indoor toilet.
I was ten years old, man. First indoor toilet. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Which, given that it was a church camp, felt appropriate.
Now I'm 88, and I just celebrated my birthday with over 1,500 of you sending in birthday messages and videos from all over the country.
I've got a whole team of people who work with me every day. We make THC gummies and seltzers and spirits and ship them right to your front door.
The world has changed a little bit since that dirt road in Alberta.
I think about that sometimes, just how far things have come, and it just makes me appreciate where we are right now even more.
We get to do something genuinely fun, with genuinely good people, and I don't take that for granted for a single second.
Anyway, my birthday sale is still going strong (just like me at 88).
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Thanks for being part of this, man, truly.
Keep on keepin' on,
Peace and love,
