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🗓️ 16 September 2024
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Today’s poem is A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “On any given day, I can call up one of a handful of friends to have tough conversations. Occasionally, I need someone who will challenge my assumptions, who will help me work through matters that are pressing, who will quickly go past the small talk to a deeper exchange, who will call me on my BS and earnest seriousness.”
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Major. I want to tell you about a podcast from Marketplace called |
0:05.9 | Financially-Inclined. Hosted by Financial Literacy Advocate Janelli Espinal, |
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0:40.0 | Green Light helps teens learn to earn, spend wisely, and invest. |
0:46.8 | Tune into financially inclined, wherever you find your podcast. I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. |
0:57.0 | I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. |
1:04.0 | On any given, |
1:06.0 | on the |
1:08.0 | on any given day I can call up one of a handful of friends to have tough |
1:17.8 | conversations. Occasionally I need someone who will challenge my assumptions, who will help me work through matters that are pressing, |
1:28.0 | who will quickly go past the small talk to a deeper exchange, who will call me on my BS and earnest seriousness. |
1:39.0 | My problem early in life was that I chose my friend solely on who spoke to political matters with gravity, |
1:47.0 | who quoted critical theorists, who had a cerebral nature about them, most of all who were willing to penetrate the veneer of |
1:56.3 | social conventions and reveal personal challenges. I was drawn to poets who read only poetry. They could speak widely and with depth on any |
2:08.4 | number of poetic traditions. But I stayed in that space of the world as a quandary, a perennial state of |
2:18.8 | of spiritual agitation which weighed on me. I realized that I desired the balance of my mentors. |
2:28.0 | They moved in the world with authority, yet also had this lightness of being that made them even more luminous. |
2:37.5 | They make sure to laugh and make room for the inconsequential, knowing that to do so risk another kind of vulnerability. |
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