[encore] 282: Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

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Today’s poem is Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. This week, we’re going back into the archive to revisit Tracy K. Smith’s time as host. Today’s episode was originally released on December 24, 2019.

In this episode, former host Tracy K. Smith writes… “It's a good thing to have a dog, someone who cares about you, someone who shares their whole heart with you entirely. Dogs don't hold back. They don't keep secrets. And they accept you as you are right now.”

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1:00.1	Hi, it's Major. The slowdown is on a break right now, but we'll be back soon with a new host.
1:06.8	In the meantime, we're bringing you some of the best episodes from our archives.
1:12.1	Today, we revisit an episode from Tracy K. Smith's time at the helm.
1:17.3	Enjoy.
1:21.6	I'm Tracy K. Smith, and this is The Slowdown.
1:41.0	It's a good thing to have a dog, someone who cares about you, someone who shares their whole heart with you entirely.
1:51.0	Dogs don't hold back. They don't keep secrets.
1:54.0	And they accept you as you are right now.
1:59.0	Maybe your dog sits around imagining what it would be like if you got out
2:04.5	more, had more people over to the house. But if you want to lie in bed all day with the peanut
2:10.9	butter on the nightstand, your dog is going to be right there with you. Do you know that feeling after maybe your third or fifth sip of coffee in the morning,
2:22.1	where you feel that surge of happiness, hope, gratitude?
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