[encore] 645: It’s 9:30am, I’ve ran four miles, cried four times, & eaten two chicken sandwiches

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

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Today’s poem is It’s 9:30am, I’ve ran four miles, cried four times, & eaten two chicken sandwiches by Christian Aldana.

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 Ada Limón’s time as host. Today’s episode was originally released on April 4, 2022.

In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “Annie Dillard once wrote, “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” I think about this a lot when I’m planning my day and what sort of pleasure I might suck out of its marrow during these tumultuous times of constant upheaval and war. Sometimes that means noticing even the most mundane of tasks in order to know we are alive, that we are living.”

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1:00.0	Hey, it's me, Major Jackson.
1:02.6	We're reaching into the archive to bring you some of our favorites.
1:06.4	Here's one from Ada Limon's tenure as host.
1:10.1	Her thoughtfulness and deep love of poetry made her time on the show very special. I hope you enjoy this selection from the archives.
1:23.6	I'm Ada Limon, and this is The Slowdown.
1:33.7	I keep a journal that I write in every day.
1:41.6	Sometimes it's just lists of things I need to do with an intention scrolled on the top of the
1:47.9	page, and other times it's recollections of my dreams or beginnings of poems or some memory that
1:56.0	strikes me or something I want to remember. I have become attached to keeping these journals because it makes me realize how much I do during
2:06.5	one day.
2:08.3	Before I started journaling with such regularity, I remember thinking I barely accomplished anything
2:15.5	in one day.
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