[encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

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Today’s poem is Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong.

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 6, 2022.

In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “I love to walk, when I’m healthy and mobile enough to walk, it’s one of my favorite things to do to recenter myself, or rather decenter myself. For me, it’s a solution to many things. When in doubt, hit the road, get out of yourself. Of course it doesn’t always work, and there were whole years where I was too sick with vertigo to properly go for a walk, but when it works, it really does work. You don’t have to have a plan. You don’t have to go fast or go slow. You don’t have to know the names of all the fauna and flora. You simply have to put your body into the world and something happens.”

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1:01.5	Today we're reaching into the archives to bring you an episode from Ada Limon's time as host.
1:07.5	I'm thrilled to revisit one of her episodes with you.
1:10.2	And don't worry, the team is hard at work on a relaunch with a new host. I'm thrilled to revisit one of her episodes with you. And don't worry, the team is hard at work
1:13.2	on a relaunch with a new host. I'm Ada Limone, and this is the slowdown.
1:32.3	I love to walk.
1:38.4	When I'm healthy and mobile enough to walk, it's one of my favorite things to do to re-center myself, or rather de-center myself.
1:43.4	Growing up in Northern California, I could walk from my house
1:46.8	in Glenelan to the Sonoma Regional Park, the backway, through the oak trees, with a short
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