Five times fifteen.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
And a pleasure to be on here.
And thank you so much for the.
The invitation.
Yeah.
It's a sunny day here in California, and, you know,
I've been pondering, you know, when I hear these wonderful stories.
You know, people tell us that the world is held together with atoms,
muons and gluons and quarks,
and all of these things that the scientists tell us hold the world together.
And indeed, that must be true.
But it also strikes me that the world is held together with stories,
and that's how we get to meet one another.
And this story that I want to tell you today is the story that how I got led to this particular book,
a number of images that inspired me and shocked me and how they all came together to lead me towards a story that I think is one of the most powerful for me
that I have ever experienced.
So a lot of you out there will know the photograph that I refer to when I say that in August 2014,
the world had its collective soul sort of shook out when there was a picture,