838: The Truth
Today\u2019s poem is The Truth by Natasha Rao. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\u2026 \u201cA pretty common response to loss is to encourage other people to cherish what\u2026and whom\u2026 they still have. When someone loses a parent, they remind the people around them to call their own mom and dad more often, or they post on social media to exhort you to hold your loved ones a little bit closer tonight. It\u2019s not bad advice, of course, but in my experience, it\u2019s not the saying I love you that\u2019s hard, or the hug that\u2019s hard, it\u2019s the showing up every day, the long conversations that veer into awkward moments of disagreement or the demands imposed by care or necessity.\u201d Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp