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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's tough to stick with workout routines and making time to hit the gym is sometimes even harder. |
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0:19.6 | fitness goals. Try Peloton risk-free with a 30-day home trial. New members only, not available in |
0:25.1 | remote location, see additional terms at onepeloton.com slash home trial. I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is |
0:31.9 | a little happier. As I think back on my life, it's so strange to consider what sticks. What's |
0:39.8 | smattering of moments or facts? Do I remember from grade school or from law school? I remember in |
0:46.0 | college my roommate looking at some daffodils growing in a courtyard and quoting John Milton's poem |
0:52.5 | Lysitus and daffodilies fill their cups with tears. I remember that moment every time I look at |
1:00.0 | a daffodil and what objects have followed us across the years. Recently I went home to Kansas City |
1:07.2 | and just as I do every time I visit my parents, I use the sturdy brown mixing bowl that they've |
1:12.2 | owned for as long as I can remember. On this visit I held up the bowl and asked, how long have you |
1:17.5 | had this bowl? I feel like we've always had it. Well, my mother said thoughtfully, we got it at the |
1:23.0 | hall's sale after the plaza flood. So much had been ruined by water and they had a big sale and |
1:28.2 | we picked the bowls up there. When was that? I asked. The Brush Creek flood was in 1977, |
1:34.8 | said my father. I did the math. You've had that bowl for 44 years. I'm sure they bought it |
1:42.4 | carelessly without any notion that it might stay in their kitchen for decades. Ordinary belongings |
1:49.6 | become precious as they persist. They make us feel rooted in our own existence with the comforting |
1:56.5 | feeling that some things will never change. Things will change, of course. But pulling that brown |
2:03.7 | bowl off the shelf makes me feel like they won't. If you'd like to see a photograph of that old brown |
2:10.8 | bowl, I'll post a link in the show notes. I'm Gretchen Rubin and I hope this makes your week |
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