This is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Jodi Powell, a producer and director at the Moth.

After the worst of the pandemic, I took a trip to the moth office.

We were out for over a year.

It looked like everything was frozen in time, unchanged, except the plants that were maintained.

They were now three times the size.

But all else, the pens on the desk in mason jars, postcards sent for birthdays.

The calendars still read 2019.

From where I stood, the sunset came in like always.

We all have moments where time loses its meaning, but sometimes we get reminders that the best moments are right now. Just then, I looked around the whole office.

Everything was covered in sunset, in true amber.

In this episode, stories about when time slows down,

and sometimes its slowness brings a gift.

Our first story comes from Scott Gravatt.

He told it at a store Islam in Portland, Oregon, where our media partners' Oregon Public

Broadcasting.

Here's Scott, live at the mouth.

My son has always been a little countercultural.

When he was in eighth grade, he trade, someone gave him a guitar hero video game,

and he traded it in for a real guitar.

Under the moniker, Dad,

real guitar heroes play real guitars.

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