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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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Today’s poem is Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “One of the great feelings of aging is coming clean about my shortcomings. That honesty is an illuminating relief, because, as today’s surrealist poem suggests, the masks we take on eventually make us an imposter to ourselves.”
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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, |
0:12.1 | Financially Incially inclined teaches listeners money lessons |
0:16.1 | to help young adults live life their own way. The new season of Financially |
0:21.5 | inclined out now covers topics ranging from how to build credit |
0:26.7 | and avoid online scams to how to outsmart impulsive buying. |
0:32.2 | Financially Incl inclined is presented in partnership with Green Light, the debit card and money app for teens. |
0:40.0 | Green Light helps teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest. |
0:46.8 | Tune into financially inclined, wherever you find your podcast. You turn to the slowdown for inspiring thought-provoking poetry and |
0:57.4 | reflection as a public media program we turn to our community for support. |
1:03.0 | Visit slowdown show.org |
1:06.0 | slash donate to give today. I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. |
1:17.0 | And this is the question if I have ever read Tostoy. |
1:38.0 | I raved about an album that a rival brought up in a conversation, |
1:43.8 | Joanie Mitchell's Blue, which never played in my Walkman. |
1:48.8 | I pretended to have seen Jim Jarmouche's Stranger than Paradise, of which I'd only viewed the trailer. |
1:58.4 | And I acted as if I knew a famous person from Philly who wrapped at my high school dance parties several times. |
2:07.0 | Actually, only once. |
2:11.0 | Some of what I am not proud of, early 30s edition, |
2:15.0 | pretending to know what some very smart friends were talking about |
2:19.0 | instead of interrupting to ask questions. Not admitting to a dear friend my frustration |
2:26.2 | with his treatment of people. Always saying I'm good, even though I was spiraling in a way that alarmed those who love me. |
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