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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

There is a beautiful passage on the last page of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s, The Little House in the Big Woods. She writes of an evening in the cabin with her family, her father playing the fiddle, her mom knitting in a rocking chair:

“She thought to herself, ‘This is now.’ She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:08.7	Hey everyone. This is Dr. Rongan Chatechee from the Built to Thrive Podcast.
0:13.2	And I promise you that if you give me just five minutes of your time, I'm gonna help you revolutionize your life.
0:19.9	My aim is to inspire and empower you with simple daily hacks that will help you feel better and thrive.
0:26.6	Check out my latest Built to Thrive episode, streaming now, only on Amazon Music.
0:37.6	3.0 Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music.
0:41.6	The lowest people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives.
0:46.6	And we use that as a springboard for conversation.
0:49.6	And then at the end of the show, we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.
0:53.6	So that's 3.0 Words with me, John Bishop and Tony Pitts.
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1:06.6	Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight and wisdom every day life.
1:15.6	Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.
1:22.6	For more, you can visit us dailystood.com.
1:31.6	Now is now.
1:34.6	There's a beautiful passage on the last page of Laura Ingalls Wilders, the little house in the big woods.
1:39.6	She writes of an evening in the cabin with her family, her father playing the fiddle, her mom knitting in a rocking chair.
1:47.6	It says, she thought to herself, this is now.
1:50.6	She was glad that the cozy house and maw and paw and the fire light and the music were now.
1:56.6	They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now can never be a long time ago.
2:03.6	It's a passage that has resonated with millions of people over the last 86 years, including the writer Gretchen Rubin, who ends her book happier at home with a meditation on how it has inspired her for most of her life.
2:18.6	What does it mean? It means the same thing that the stills have always talked about, that you have to live in the very now even when it is ordinary and quiet, because the now is very special.
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