[encore] 788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
American Public Media
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today’s poem is John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash by Robert Hass.
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 October 20, 2022.
In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “Today’s poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, is a poem that balances the worrisome long threads of our lives against the large wonder of mountains. The poem’s title also asks us to question who gets to name, or claim, nature at all.”
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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. |
| 1:16.1 | I hope you enjoy this selection from the archives. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm Ida Limon, and this is the slowdown. |
| 1:30.3 | A long time ago, I was trying to learn to meditate. |
| 1:41.3 | The one thing that worked, the thing that finally allowed me to be |
| 1:46.0 | still and just breathe, was simply being physically exhausted. I could meditate best after a long |
| 1:53.6 | hike up a hill on Moon Mountain or in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park where a long winding hill |
| 2:00.4 | brought me to a meadow, where for once |
| 2:02.9 | my phone didn't get a signal, and I could see across the other valley. There, I could imagine |
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