[encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong.

The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. 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 May 18, 2020.

In this episode, Tracy writes… “Today’s poem models another critical aspect of self-care: being honest about how difficult life feels, and striving to be tender, patient and consoling with oneself.”

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1:06.2	In the meantime, we're bringing you some of the best episodes from our archives. Today, we revisit an episode from
1:14.1	Tracy K. Smith's time at the helm. Enjoy. I'm Tracy K. Smith, and this is The Slowdown.
1:33.7	The question I'm asked at nearly every Q&A is this.
1:39.5	How do you practice self-care?
1:43.0	The first time I heard it, I was thrown for a loop.
1:46.5	How do I take care of myself?
1:48.7	I asked the questioner, just to make sure.
1:51.5	And her reply was, yes, how do you recover from the stress of living in the world as a person of color?
2:00.1	And then I understood. She was asking how I was
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