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John Dickerson

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode four of naval gazing. Season one, I'm John Dickerson. The entry that starts today's episode is 1016. It's from Notebook 75, page 8, September 2021. That's it, 1016. And we'd like to thank you for listening on our next episode,
0:24.8	four random letters read aloud. I kid. This entry is found in the tight terrain of just a few
0:31.4	pages of notebook entries that we've been looking at in the first three episodes of this series
0:36.5	of navel gazing. I almost called it nasal
0:39.2	gazing, which is an entirely different podcast. It's more probiscus forward. Though the collection of
0:45.2	notebooks fills boxes, we're sticking to this narrow territory. This entry is the one after
0:50.7	those about our dog, George, that oriented our last episode. We won't always go in
0:57.1	order. We'll zoom from entry to entry soon enough, pinballing through time, but I'm sticking to
1:02.4	the chronology for now. There is a benefit in being forced to make meaning out of chronological
1:08.0	order, forcing yourself to look longer than you might otherwise have.
1:12.2	That is the topic for this episode, finding wonder through noticing longer.
1:24.0	So far, the notebook entries from this period in the fall of 2021 have given us only things that are not there, our son's interruptions, ears of corn, the early morning rattle of dog's leash.
1:36.8	1016, a single four-digit number, embedded in no surrounding context in the notebook, signifies the opposite, a new arrival in our life.
1:48.6	You see, during this period, we were moving apartments.
1:51.9	The living room in which this story started was not going to be our living room for much longer.
1:56.8	The sideboard, known for its ability to withstand a late afternoon arrow on a Sunday, would
2:02.0	be hauled a dozen blocks north and a few avenues east across the west side of New York
2:07.0	to catch whatever it was that might come through the window on Columbus Avenue.
2:10.6	So this period of transition in our life was not just theoretical or psychological.
2:15.1	Our collection of carbon and atoms would be transitioning to a new physical space.
2:20.4	The small ballet we all learned to get in and out of the spaces where we nest would disappear
2:25.6	and be replaced by a new set of practiced movements that structure our days.
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