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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | Have you ever noticed how music has this weird power to completely change your state in an instant? |
0:09.0 | One moment you're going through the motions, and then boom, a certain melody just catches you off guard, |
0:15.0 | and suddenly you're feeling everything. |
0:18.0 | It's like different songs hold different keys to unlock different parts of us. |
0:22.6 | The right sound at the right moment can crack you open. It can give you chills or transport you to a memory so vivid you can almost smell it. |
0:31.6 | I took my toddlers to the Santa Barbara Zoo last weekend. |
0:35.6 | Solo parent trip with two and four year old boys |
0:39.1 | because apparently I enjoy chaos. |
0:41.7 | Well, picture this. |
0:42.9 | I am juggling snacks and water bottles and sunscreen |
0:46.6 | while my four year old announces that he needs to pee right now. |
0:50.6 | And my two year old decides the lion enclosure fence |
0:53.7 | looks climbable. |
0:55.0 | My neck was so tense I could barely turn my head. |
0:59.0 | Parent mode in full survival swing. |
1:01.0 | Well then we passed this random older gentleman playing a wooden flute near the white-handed gibbon exhibit. |
1:09.0 | Not part of the zoo. |
1:10.0 | Just some random street musician |
1:12.8 | who set up shop and decided to spread a little joy. And something weird happened. The chaos just |
1:20.1 | paused. Those simple notes cut through everything. The mental checklist, the constant vigilance, all of it. |
1:29.3 | And not just for me, both of my boys. |
1:33.3 | My breathing slowed down, my shoulders dropped. |
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