1217: Abide by Jake Adam York
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
American Public Media
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today’s poem is Abide by Jake Adam York. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem sees existence as a fleeting encounter of sublime immensity — one where we intertwine with the natural world, such that we have no other choice, but to awaken to all life around us.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. |
| 0:05.0 | And this is the slowdown. Slow down. Who are your closest friends? How do you express your gratitude to them? |
| 0:15.0 | Who are your closest friends? |
| 0:22.0 | How do you express your gratitude to them? Who are your closest friends? |
| 0:22.5 | How do you express your gratitude to them? |
| 0:26.5 | Do you visit or call them late at night? |
| 0:29.4 | Do they receive your gifts on their birthdays? I am such a slacker, but all my friends know this. |
| 0:37.1 | They give me a pass, which is also an expression of our bonds. |
| 0:43.5 | They know I love them, that if I have a chance to tell them |
| 0:46.9 | when we are together, they will hear it. |
| 0:51.4 | My friends represent one of my greatest blessings on earth. |
| 0:55.0 | I am empty without their compassion. |
| 0:58.0 | Beyond obvious acts of charity, my friends also make sure I do not take myself or the world too seriously. |
| 1:08.1 | They make me accountable to myself, my career and my family. |
| 1:19.0 | They encouraged me to take risks, but also advised against rash decisions. |
| 1:27.0 | Do not get us to laughing. The camaraderie between us electrifies the spaces we move in. This past summer, six of us sat in the back of a restaurant in Rome. |
| 1:32.0 | The room was filled with tearful laughter. |
| 1:36.8 | Our interests run so parallel in deep, we enter into conversations that run hours. |
| 1:44.0 | How many times have I stayed up late nursing blissful exchanges and ideas, |
| 1:51.0 | buoyed by the amazing feeling of getting closer to solving the world's problems. |
| 1:57.0 | This was not always the case. |
| 2:00.0 | I suffered in my youth an inability to be vulnerable, expressing feelings cut against the codes |
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