1032: Counting, This New Years Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me
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Today\\u2019s poem is Counting, This New Year\\u2019s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, Major writes\\u2026 \\u201cThe clocks have struck another year. Soon, I will box up and archive 2023 in the mental basement of my mind, although I'm sure certain events of the past 365 days will reverberate in both predictable and not-so-predictable ways into the future. Today\\u2019s poem makes a powerful assertion that maybe what we bring to the problems of the world, to our sense of survival, is our attention\\u2014and our joy.\\u201d
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