1203: This Living by Amber Tamblyn

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s poem is This Living by Amber Tamblyn.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “In my mere five decades on earth, I’ve faced many challenges — thwarted dreams, failed friendships, career disappointments — that often left me feeling alone, stranded in the dry badlands, searing heat bearing down. And yet, of course, I wasn’t. A three-hour telephone conversation with a friend, an unexpected consoling note from a colleague, even a passing smile from that stranger who read signs of stress in my gait, all these could break down my self-involved isolation. Through a rich panoply of difficult moments, today’s poem names and confronts life’s consuming dramas.”

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Major. I want to tell you about a podcast from Marketplace called
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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, 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.
1:03.4	In my mere five decades on earth, I face many challenges.
1:18.0	Towarded dreams, failed friendships, career disappointments, that often left me feeling alone, stranded in the dry bad
1:27.0	lands searing heat bearing down.
1:30.9	And yet, of course, I wasn't.
1:34.0	A three-hour telephone conversation with a friend, an unexpected consoling note from a colleague,
1:41.7	even a passing smile from that stranger who read signs of stress in my gate.
1:48.0	All these could break down my self-involved isolation.
1:53.2	Through a rich panoply of difficult moments,
1:57.1	today's poem names and confronts life's consuming dramas.
2:05.0	This living by Amber Tamplin
2:09.0	is going to be a lunar eclipse,
2:12.0	is going to be a lunar eclipse.
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