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The Poetry and Music of Life | Episode #519 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Dr. Gloria, Gloria Burgess, international
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  Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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  Speaker 1: Your Life Count. I'm so delighted that you joined me today.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a big thank you to those
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  Speaker 1: of you who are listening and a great big shout
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  Speaker 1: out to all of you listening around the world. I'm
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  Speaker 1: delighted and so grateful that you're here. I sure hope
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  Speaker 1: you're enjoying a fabulous day and that you're having a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic week because you know what? In the grand song
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  Speaker 1: of the universe, life is so short. It's short, sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and very precious. So I hope you're making a difference
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  Speaker 1: in your own life Because when you do, you also
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  Speaker 1: make a difference in somebody else's life. Now a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us, a lot of us really want to make
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  Speaker 1: our life count for something. But we don't know how
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  Speaker 1: or how to begin. So folks ask me, Dr. Gloria,
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  Speaker 1: how do you make your life count? Well, it's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: Very simple. You make your life count day by day,
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  Speaker 1: step by step, moment by moment, every single day. 365-24-7. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say more about that later on. Right now, it's
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  Speaker 1: time to step back and listen in. That's right, it's
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  Speaker 1: time to hit the pause button. It's time for today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: which is all about music and poetry. Now, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to imagine that we're in the same room, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's your living room or kitchen, and I'm sitting across
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  Speaker 1: the table from you. I'm pouring you a cup of
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  Speaker 1: tea or coffee, and we're about to have a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: cup of what matters. So again, today's focus is all
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  Speaker 1: about the power of music and poetry. Music and poetry. Now,
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  Speaker 1: today's episode focuses on one of my favorite people on
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  Speaker 1: the planet. Her name is is Joy Harjo. Her life
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  Speaker 1: is what Legacy Living Make Your Life Count is all about. Now,
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  Speaker 1: most of us know Ms. Harjo as a wonderful poet
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  Speaker 1: and musician and activist. Well, I know her as a
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  Speaker 1: poet and musician and activist extraordinaire. I also know Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Joy as a smart, funny, and fiercely lit soul. For me,
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  Speaker 1: she expanded and amplified my understanding about the intertwined power
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  Speaker 1: of music and poetry. And she showed up in my
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  Speaker 1: life at a time where it made a difference for me. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I had the good fortune to meet Miss Joy Harjo many,
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  Speaker 1: many years ago when we were both featured poets at
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  Speaker 1: the Skagit River Poetry Festival. I recall that experience as
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  Speaker 1: though it happened just a few weeks ago. I remember
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  Speaker 1: seeing her take the stage in her black shirt and
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  Speaker 1: black jeans and black boots and turquoise earrings and turquoise
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  Speaker 1: beads around her neck. She had something else around her
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  Speaker 1: neck as well, and that was her axe, right? That
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  Speaker 1: was her saxophone. So when she took the stage, the
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  Speaker 1: first sound I heard were not the words of her poems,
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  Speaker 1: but the music of her soul, which is poetry too.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that music wailing from her saxophone, and I
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  Speaker 1: play saxophone too, so I'm thinking, wow, I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: poems come out of the saxophone like that before. What
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  Speaker 1: I heard was the poetry and the music of earth
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  Speaker 1: and sky and rivers and streams in the voice of
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  Speaker 1: that saxophone. I heard Miss Harjo screaming love songs to
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  Speaker 1: the sun, and I heard her crooning nighttime memories to
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  Speaker 1: the moon. Oh, yes, I heard the music of poetry
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  Speaker 1: and the poetry of music, and they were like two
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  Speaker 1: lovers dancing like there's no tomorrow. There was no light.
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  Speaker 1: There was no separation between them. It was in Miss
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  Speaker 1: Harjo's music that I learned about her poems and in
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  Speaker 1: her poems that I learned about her music. And I
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  Speaker 1: understood that both were as necessary as air. Did you
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  Speaker 1: know that Miss Harjo is the first poet from Indian
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  Speaker 1: country to become Poet Laureate? of the United States. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. And she's the second poet, only the second poet,
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  Speaker 1: to hold that post for three consecutive terms. Now, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Joy has many, many worthy tributes, prizes, and accolades. But
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  Speaker 1: the best way to introduce this very special human being,
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  Speaker 1: this very special poet, is not by sharing her many,
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  Speaker 1: many accolades. The best way to introduce Joy Harjo is
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  Speaker 1: through her own words, through her own poetry, which is music,
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  Speaker 1: which is music, which is music. The first poem I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to share is called Remember. Remember. Remember the sky
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  Speaker 1: you were born under. Know each of the stars' stories.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the moon. Know who she is. I met her
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  Speaker 1: in a bar once in Iowa City. Remember the sun's
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  Speaker 1: birth at dawn. That is the strongest point of time.
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  Speaker 1: Remember sundown and the giving away to night. Remember your birth,
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  Speaker 1: how your mother struggled to give you form and breath.
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  Speaker 1: You are evidence of her life and her mother's and hers.
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  Speaker 1: Remember your father. He is your life also. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: earth whose skin you are. Red earth, black earth, yellow earth.
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  Speaker 1: White earth. Brown earth. We are earth. Remember the plants, trees,
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  Speaker 1: animal life, who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to them. Listen to them. They are alive poems.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the wind. Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She
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  Speaker 1: knows the origin of the universe. I heard her singing
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  Speaker 1: Kiowa War dance songs at the corner of 4th and
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  Speaker 1: Central once. Remember you are all people and that all
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  Speaker 1: people are you. Remember you are this universe and that
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  Speaker 1: this universe is you. Remember, all is in motion, is growing,
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  Speaker 1: is you. Remember, all language comes from this. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: dance that language is, that life is. Remember. Remember. In
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful poem, Miss Joy distilled so many lessons. Lessons
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  Speaker 1: perhaps she learned as a child. Lessons we would do
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  Speaker 1: well to refresh for ourselves. Lessons about the symbiotic relationship
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  Speaker 1: of human beings to all things, all essences. all presences,
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  Speaker 1: all prayers, all people. The music of the repeated word
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  Speaker 1: remember is a summons, a calling to us all to
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  Speaker 1: do just that. Remember. Remember. Remember. is that poem again. Remember.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the sky that you were born under. Know each
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  Speaker 1: of the star's stories. Remember the moon. Know who she is.
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  Speaker 1: I met her in a bar once in Iowa City.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the sun's birth at dawn. That is the strongest
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  Speaker 1: point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you
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  Speaker 1: form and breath. You are evidence of her life. and
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  Speaker 1: her mother's and hers. Remember your father, he is your
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  Speaker 1: life also. Remember the earth whose skin you are, red earth,
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  Speaker 1: black earth, yellow earth, white earth, brown earth, we are earth.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
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  Speaker 1: tribes their families, their histories, too. Talk to them. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to them. They are alive poems. Remember the wind. Remember
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  Speaker 1: her voice. She knows the origin of the universe. I
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  Speaker 1: heard her singing Kiowa War dance songs at the corner
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  Speaker 1: of 4th and Central once. Remember you are all people
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  Speaker 1: and that all people are you. Remember that you are
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  Speaker 1: this universe and that this universe is you. Remember all
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  Speaker 1: is in motion, is growing, is you. Remember all language
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  Speaker 1: comes from this universe. Remember the dance that language is,
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  Speaker 1: that life is. Remember. Remember. Another one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: poems by Miss Harjo is one of her more recent poems.
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  Speaker 1: This one is from her collection called Conflict Resolution for
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  Speaker 1: Holy Beings. I love the title of that book, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. And the title of this
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  Speaker 1: next poem is called For Calling the Spirit Back Home
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  Speaker 1: from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet. Yeah. for
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  Speaker 1: calling the spirit back home from wandering the earth in
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  Speaker 1: its human feet. Put down that bag of potato chips,
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  Speaker 1: that white bread, that bottle of pop. Turn off that
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  Speaker 1: cell phone, computer, and remote control. Open the door. Then
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  Speaker 1: close it behind you. Take a breath offered by friendly winds.
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  Speaker 1: They travel the earth gathering essences of plant to clean.
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  Speaker 1: Give it back with gratitude. If you sing, it will
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  Speaker 1: give your spirit lift. to fly to the stars' ears
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  Speaker 1: and back. Acknowledge this earth who has cared for you
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  Speaker 1: since you were a dream planting itself precisely within your
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  Speaker 1: parents' desire. Let your moccasin feet take you to the
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  Speaker 1: encampment of the guardians who have known you before time,
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  Speaker 1: who will be there after time. They sit before the
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  Speaker 1: fire that has been there without time. Let the earth
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  Speaker 1: stabilize your post-colonial insecure jitters. Be respectful of the small insects, birds,
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  Speaker 1: and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for
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  Speaker 1: the harm we humans have brought down upon them. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: The heart knows the way, though there may be high-rises, interstates, checkpoints,
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  Speaker 1: armed soldiers, massacres, wars, and those who will despise you
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  Speaker 1: because they despise themselves. The journey might take you a
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  Speaker 1: few hours, a day, a year, a few years, a hundred,
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  Speaker 1: a thousand, or even more. Watch your mind. Without training,
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  Speaker 1: it might run away and leave your heart for the
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  Speaker 1: immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do
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  Speaker 1: not hold regrets. When you find your way to the circle,
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  Speaker 1: to the fire kept burning by the keepers of your soul,
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  Speaker 1: you will be welcomed. You must clean yourself with cedar, sage,
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  Speaker 1: or other healing plants. Cut the ties you have to
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  Speaker 1: failure and shame. Let go the pain you are holding
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  Speaker 1: in your mind, your shoulders, your heart, all the way
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  Speaker 1: to your feet. Let go the pain of your ancestors
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  Speaker 1: to make way for those who are heading in our direction.
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  Speaker 1: Ask for forgiveness. Call upon the help of those who
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  Speaker 1: love you. These helpers take many forms, animal, element, bird, angel, saint, stone,
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  Speaker 1: or ancestor. Call your spirit back. It may be caught
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  Speaker 1: in corners and creases of shame, judgment, and human abuse.
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  Speaker 1: You must call in a way that your spirit will
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  Speaker 1: want to return. Speak to it as you would to
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  Speaker 1: a beloved child. Welcome your spirit back from its wandering.
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  Speaker 1: It may return in pieces, in tatters. Gather them together.
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  Speaker 1: They will be happy to be found After being lost
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  Speaker 1: for so long. Your spirit will need to sleep a while.
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  Speaker 1: After it is bathed and given clean clothes. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can have a party. Invite everyone you know who loves
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  Speaker 1: you and supports you. Keep room for those who have
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  Speaker 1: no place else to go. Make a giveaway. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: keep the speeches short. Then... You must do this. Help
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  Speaker 1: the next person find their way through the dark. Help
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  Speaker 1: the next person find their way through the dark. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, be the difference who makes the difference. in
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  Speaker 1: your own life and then in somebody else's life. I
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  Speaker 1: love this poem because it is just filled with the
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  Speaker 1: music of surrender, letting go, longing. The music is filled
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  Speaker 1: with poetry, the poetry of refreshment, renewal, remorse. and belonging.
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  Speaker 1: And once again, Ms. Harjo reminds us that music and poetry,
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  Speaker 1: poetry and music, are absolutely inseparable. Now, if we're walking
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  Speaker 1: through a gallery and taking in a painting or sculpture,
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  Speaker 1: we can pause and consider that painting or sculpture for
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  Speaker 1: a good long while. But the words of a poem,
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  Speaker 1: the notes of music they just fly away they fly
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  Speaker 1: away from us as soon after they land on our
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  Speaker 1: ear well if you like hearing poems like I do
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  Speaker 1: I encourage you to download my podcast so you can
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  Speaker 1: listen again and again. And if you'd like to hear
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  Speaker 1: poems read on the poet's own breath, you can go
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  Speaker 1: to any Good Poetry website and listen to a recording.
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  Speaker 1: For example, you can find audio and video recordings of Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Harjo sharing some of her poems. How cool is that?
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  Speaker 1: So here are two more poems by Joy Harjo. These
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  Speaker 1: poems are also among my favorites. This first poem is
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  Speaker 1: called Grace. Grace. For Darlene Wind and James Welch. I
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  Speaker 1: think of Wind and her wild ways the year we
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to lose and lost it anyway in the
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  Speaker 1: cursed country of the fox. We still talk about that winter.
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  Speaker 1: how the cold froze imaginary buffalo on the stuffed horizon
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  Speaker 1: of snowbanks. The haunting voices of the starved and mutilated
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  Speaker 1: broke fences crashed our thermostat dreams, and we couldn't stand
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  Speaker 1: it one more time. So once again we lost a
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  Speaker 1: winter in stubborn memory, walked through cheap apartment walls, skated
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  Speaker 1: through fields of ghosts into a town that never wanted
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  Speaker 1: us in the epic search for grace. Like coyote, like rabbit,
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  Speaker 1: we could not contain our terror and clowned our way
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  Speaker 1: through a season of false midnights. We had to swallow
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  Speaker 1: that town with laughter so it would go down easy
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  Speaker 1: as honey. And one morning, as the sun struggled to
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  Speaker 1: break ice, and our dreams had found us with coffee
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  Speaker 1: and pancakes in a truck stop along Highway 80, we
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  Speaker 1: found Grace. I could say Grace was a woman with
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  Speaker 1: time on her hands, or a white buffalo escaped from memory.
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  Speaker 1: But in that dingy light, it was a promise of balance.
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  Speaker 1: we once again understood the talk of animals, and spring
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  Speaker 1: was lean and hungry with the hope of children and corn.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to say with grace we picked ourselves
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  Speaker 1: up and walked into the spring thaw. We didn't. The
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  Speaker 1: next season was worse. You went home to Leech Lake
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  Speaker 1: to work with the tribe and I went south. And wind,
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  Speaker 1: I am still crazy. I know there is something larger
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  Speaker 1: than the memory of a dispossessed people. We have seen it.
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  Speaker 1: I know there is something larger than the memory of
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  Speaker 1: a dispossessed people. We have seen it. Grace. This next poem,
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  Speaker 1: this next poem is called Eagle Poem. Ego poem. To pray,
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  Speaker 1: you open your whole self to sky, to earth, to sun,
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  Speaker 1: to moon, to one whole voice that is you. And
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  Speaker 1: know there is more that you can't see, can't hear,
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  Speaker 1: can't know, except in moments steadily growing. and in languages
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  Speaker 1: that aren't always sound, but other circles of motion. Like
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  Speaker 1: eagle that Sunday morning over Salt River, circled in blue
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  Speaker 1: sky and wind, swept our hearts clean with sacred wings.
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  Speaker 1: We see you, see ourselves, and know that we must
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  Speaker 1: take the utmost care and kindness in all things. Breathe
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  Speaker 1: in knowing we are made of all this and breathe
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  Speaker 1: knowing we are truly blessed because we were born and
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  Speaker 1: die soon within a true circle of motion. like eagle
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  Speaker 1: rounding out the morning inside us. We pray that it
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  Speaker 1: will be done in beauty. In beauty. Eagle poem. Here
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  Speaker 1: it is again. To pray you open your whole self
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  Speaker 1: to sky, to earth, to sun, to moon, to one
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  Speaker 1: whole voice that is you. And know there is more
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  Speaker 1: that you can't see, can't hear, can't know except in
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  Speaker 1: moments steadily growing and in languages that aren't always sound
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  Speaker 1: but other circles of motion. Like Eagle that Sunday morning
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  Speaker 1: over Salt River circled in blue sky and wind, swept
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  Speaker 1: our hearts clean with sacred wings. We see you, see ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and know that we must take the utmost care and
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  Speaker 1: kindness in all things. Breathe in knowing we are made
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  Speaker 1: of all this. And breathe knowing we are truly blessed
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  Speaker 1: because we were born. And die soon within a true
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  Speaker 1: circle of motion. Like eagle rounding out the morning inside us.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that it will be done in beauty. In beauty.
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  Speaker 1: beauty eagle poem this poem evokes memory such deep memory
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  Speaker 1: and my own soul And I know I can hear
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit whispering, be still, be still, take a minute,
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  Speaker 1: take a moment to savor the beauty of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the way the sun beams down on the
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  Speaker 1: bright blue sea, or maybe it's a passing, a passing
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  Speaker 1: moment that we pause so we can relish that exquisite
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  Speaker 1: glow of the evening sun just before it melts away
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  Speaker 1: into a bank of clouds or steams away into the
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  Speaker 1: silent sea. I love this poem for so many reasons.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I think the most significant reason is because
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  Speaker 1: it allows me, it helps me, it encourages me, invites
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  Speaker 1: me to slow down. to just be still, to press pause,
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  Speaker 1: just for a moment, for a little while, to bathe
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  Speaker 1: in beauty and to forget, to let go of the busy, busy,
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  Speaker 1: busyness of my life. The poem also invites me to
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  Speaker 1: remember to live in the music and poetry and sanctity
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  Speaker 1: of the world. How we live is how we do
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  Speaker 1: everything else, right? How we parent, how we teach, how
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  Speaker 1: we serve, how we lead in any aspect of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: To learn more about Joy Harjo and her life of
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  Speaker 1: writing and music and service, be sure to visit the
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  Speaker 1: Poetry Foundation website. And the website is www.poetryfoundation.org Okay? Poetryfoundation.org.
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  Speaker 1: There you can read more about Miss Joy's life. You
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  Speaker 1: can read her poems and even hear her read some
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  Speaker 1: of her own poems. You can also find information and
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  Speaker 1: inspiration on Miss Joy's website. And that's www.joyharjo.org. Okay? joyharjo.org.
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  Speaker 1: and you spell Harjo, H-A-R-J-O, joyharjo.org. Can I just tell
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  Speaker 1: you something? Miss Joy, we love you. And we celebrate you.
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  Speaker 1: We lift you up during National Poetry Month, during Women's
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  Speaker 1: History Month, during Indigenous Peoples Month, and not only during
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  Speaker 1: those times, but we celebrate you every single day. We
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  Speaker 1: celebrate you for looking forward into the wind, for looking
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  Speaker 1: into the wind, for standing in the wind, for allowing
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  Speaker 1: the wind to whirl through you. We celebrate you for
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  Speaker 1: looking into the face of memory, for being a vessel
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  Speaker 1: for the voices of your ancestors and those who are
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  Speaker 1: coming in our direction. We celebrate you for being a
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  Speaker 1: music maker and a poetry baker, for your exquisite artistry
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  Speaker 1: and your amazing gifts of being awake to life and
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  Speaker 1: turning that life, the good, the gracious, the ugly, and
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  Speaker 1: the tragic into astonishing works of remembrance, of reverence, of restoration,
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  Speaker 1: of redemption. we salute you and celebrate you for your
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  Speaker 1: astounding artistry. We express our deep, deep gratitude and we
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  Speaker 1: thank you for showing us the inseparable power of music
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  Speaker 1: and poetry and what the power of one person, of
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  Speaker 1: one person who lives their life to make a difference
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  Speaker 1: is all about, right? Now that's exactly what we talked
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  Speaker 1: about earlier, and I promise to say more about how
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  Speaker 1: you can make your life count. So here we go.
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  Speaker 1: You can make your life count in so many ways
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  Speaker 1: by being there for someone who simply needs the precious,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful fragrance of your presence. Now what do I mean
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  Speaker 1: by that? Well, Maybe that person just needs you to
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  Speaker 1: listen to them talk about their day, about how their
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  Speaker 1: dad is doing, or maybe they need to talk about
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  Speaker 1: their relationship with a friend or a daughter or son.
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  Speaker 1: And they don't want to just talk to anybody. What
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