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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.

Com. Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

For 12 years now, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative types

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about.

On this podcast, Debbie Milman talks with poet Elizabeth Alexander about how death makes us think

about what we truly value.

If we're all going to die, what is the

is the meaningfulness of life.

We can't just do it for the things that make our bodies feel good in a day.

Here's Debbie Milma.

In 2009, at President Barack Obama's first inauguration,

Elizabeth Alexander read a poem she wrote for the occasion called Praise Song for the Day.

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