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🗓️ 15 September 2025
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Today’s poem is Blue by Jodie Hollander.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem speaks to how we all see the world—and our lives—with completely unique eyes. With a vision colored by our own experiences.”
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| 1:05.8 | I'm Maggie Smith and this is the slowdown. |
| 1:19.6 | Thank you. Maggie Smith, and this is the slowdown. Once, someone walked into my house and said, well, someone's not afraid of color. |
| 1:28.0 | She's right. |
| 1:29.5 | My house is full of bright, bold colors. |
| 1:34.0 | Every wall is covered with art or lined with bookcases or both. |
| 1:40.5 | In the living room alone, there's a turquoise chair in ottoman, a pale pink chest of drawers, and a yellow sectional sofa. |
| 1:52.0 | Yellow is one of my favorite colors. My dining room cabinets are a shiny, lemony lacquer. After my divorce, when my house was sparsely furnished, |
| 2:06.1 | I invited my family over for a new furniture assembly party. When we opened the boxes for those |
| 2:14.8 | cabinets, my dad said, oh no, they sent the wrong ones. I laughed and told him, |
| 2:22.5 | no, they were exactly the right ones. Green is another color I'm especially drawn to. It feels like |
| 2:32.3 | the color of possibility. After all, when someone is new at something, we say |
| 2:39.3 | they're green. Green like a tiny chute making its way out of the soil in springtime. I find the |
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