Little Happier: This Nightly Ritual Gives Me the “New York City Feeling” During the Pandemic.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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I get my “America Feeling”— more specifically, my “New York City feeling”--every night at 7 p.m., when we all cheer and clap for the people working on the front lines of the pandemic. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Ribbon and this is a little happier.
0:03.3	I've spoken many times about my America feeling.
0:06.8	It's the feeling I get when I vote or look at the statue of Liberty or a listen to the
0:12.0	song, the farmer and the cow man from the musical Oklahoma.
0:16.6	And I've spoken about when I've had a similar feeling in a different context, such as when
0:20.8	I experienced the Austria feeling when listening to Captain von Trapp sing the song Adelweiss
0:26.8	from the movie The Sound of Music.
0:29.4	Lately, I've had the America feeling every day or maybe it's the New York City feeling
0:35.2	or the world's feeling and I get it every day right on schedule.
0:40.6	Every evening here in New York City where I live at 7pm, I can hear people cheering, clapping
0:46.1	and banging pots to express gratitude for all the people working on the front lines of
0:50.7	the COVID-19 situation.
0:52.7	I took a video the other day and here I'll play it for you.
0:58.0	Everyone's cheering at 7 o'clock in New York.
1:01.8	Everyone's cheering for the healthcare workers and essential workers.
1:06.1	It's funny, you can't see people doing it but you can hear it.
1:13.6	The cheering has a very particular New York City quality because the sound bounces off
1:18.9	the tall buildings as people cheer from windows, balconies and rooftops.
1:24.4	It's uncanny too because although I can hear the people cheering, for the most part I can't
1:30.2	see them.
1:31.6	The sidewalks and streets are deserted and because of the tall buildings I can't get a wide
1:37.4	view.
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