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Joy Harjo - Poet For Our Times | Episode #493 · 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, Doctor 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, doctor 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. Three
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  Speaker 1: sixty five, twenty four seven. Now, I'll say more about
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  Speaker 1: that later on. Right now, it's time to step back
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  Speaker 1: and listen in that's right, it's time to hit the
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  Speaker 1: pause button. It's time for today's episode, which is all
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  Speaker 1: about music and poetry. Now, I want you to imagine
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  Speaker 1: that we're in the same room, maybe it's your living
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  Speaker 1: room or kitchen, and I'm sitting across the table from you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pouring you a cup of tea or coffee, and
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  Speaker 1: we're about to have a wonderful cup of what matters.
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  Speaker 1: So again, today's focus is all about the power of
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  Speaker 1: music and poetry. Music and poetry. Now, today's episode focuses
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  Speaker 1: on one of my favorite people on the planet. Her
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  Speaker 1: name is Joy Harjo. Her life is what legacy living,
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  Speaker 1: make your life count is all about. Now, most of
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  Speaker 1: us know Miss Harjo as a wonderful poet and musician
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  Speaker 1: and activists. Well, I know her as a poet and
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  Speaker 1: musician and activist extraordinaire. I also know Miss Joy as
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  Speaker 1: a smart, funny and fiercely lit soul. For me, she
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  Speaker 1: expanded and amplified my understanding about the intertwined power of
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  Speaker 1: music and poetry. And she showed up in my life
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  Speaker 1: 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 Harjoe
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  Speaker 1: many many years ago when we were both featured poets
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  Speaker 1: at the Scadget River Poetry Festival. I recall that experience
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  Speaker 1: as though it happened just a few weeks ago. I
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  Speaker 1: remember seeing her take the stage in her black shirt
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  Speaker 1: and black jeans and black boots and turquoise earrings and
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  Speaker 1: turquoise beads around her neck. She had something else around
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  Speaker 1: her neck as well, and that was her axe, right,
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  Speaker 1: that was her saxophone. So when she took the stage,
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  Speaker 1: the first sound I heard were not the words of
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  Speaker 1: her poems, but the music of her soul, which is
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  Speaker 1: poetry too. I heard that music wailing from her saxophone.
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  Speaker 1: And I play saxophone too, so I'm thinking, Wow, I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard poems come out of the saxophone like that before.
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  Speaker 1: What I heard was the poetry and the music of
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  Speaker 1: earth and sky and rivers and streams in the voice
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  Speaker 1: of that saxophone. I heard Miss Harjoe screaming love songs
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  Speaker 1: to the sun, and I heard her crooning nighttime memories
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  Speaker 1: to the moon. Oh yes, I heard the music of
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  Speaker 1: poetry and the poetry of music. And they were like
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  Speaker 1: two love 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
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  Speaker 1: poet to hold that post for three consecutive terms. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Joy has many many worthy tributes, prizes and accolades.
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  Speaker 1: But 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 Harjoe 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 tonight. 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 earth,
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 1: To talk to them, listen to them, they are alive poems.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the wind. Remember her voice, she knows the origin
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  Speaker 1: of the universe. I heard her singing Kiawa war dance
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  Speaker 1: songs at the corner of Fourth and Central once. Remember
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  Speaker 1: you are all people, and that all people are you.
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  Speaker 1: Remember you are this universe, and that this universe is you.
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  Speaker 1: Remember all is in motion, is growing is you. Remember
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  Speaker 1: all language comes from this. Remember the dance. That language is,
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  Speaker 1: that life is Remember m Remember.
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  Speaker 2: In this.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful poem, Miss Joy distills so many lessons, lessons perhaps
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  Speaker 1: she learned as a child, lessons we would do well
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  Speaker 1: to refresh for ourselves, Lessons about the symbiotic relationship of
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  Speaker 1: human beings to all things, all essences, all presences, all prayers,
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  Speaker 1: all people. The music of the repeated word. Remember is
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  Speaker 1: a summons, a calling to us all to do just that.
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  Speaker 1: Remember remember he where is that poem? Again? Remember Remember
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  Speaker 1: the sky that you were born under. Know each of
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  Speaker 1: 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 life. Also,
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  Speaker 1: remember the earth, whose skin you are. Red earth, black earth,
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  Speaker 1: yellow earth, white earth, brown earth. We are Earth. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the plants, trees, animal life, who all have their tribes,
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  Speaker 1: their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them.
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  Speaker 1: They are alive poems. Remember the wind. Remember her voice,
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  Speaker 1: she knows the origin of the universe. I heard her
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  Speaker 1: singing kiawah war dance songs at the corner of fourth
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  Speaker 1: and Central ones. Remember you are all people, and that
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  Speaker 1: all people are you. Remember that you are this universe,
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  Speaker 1: and that this universe is you. Remember all is in motion,
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  Speaker 1: is growing is you? Remember all language comes from this
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  Speaker 1: remember the dance. That language is, that life is remember Remember.
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  Speaker 1: Another one of my favorite poems by Miss Harjo is
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  Speaker 1: one of her more recent poems. This one is from
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  Speaker 1: her collection called Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. I love
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  Speaker 1: the title of that book, don't you Conflict Resolution for
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  Speaker 1: Holy Beings? And the title of this next poem is
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  Speaker 1: called for calling the spirit back home from wandering the
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  Speaker 1: earth in its human feet. Yeah, for calling the spirit
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  Speaker 1: back home from wandering the earth in its human feet.
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  Speaker 1: Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread,
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  Speaker 1: that bottle of pop. Turn off that cell phone, computer
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  Speaker 1: and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you.
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  Speaker 1: Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth,
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  Speaker 1: gathering senses of plant to clean, give it back with gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: If you sing, it will give your spirit lift to
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  Speaker 1: fly to the star's ears and back. Acknowledge this earth,
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  Speaker 1: who has cared for you since you were a dream,
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  Speaker 1: planting itself precisely within your parents' desire. Let your moccasin
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  Speaker 1: feet take you to the encampment of the guardians who
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  Speaker 1: have known you before time, who will be there after time.
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  Speaker 1: They sit before the fire that has been there without time.
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  Speaker 1: Let the earth stabilize your postcolonial insecure jitters. Be respectful
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  Speaker 1: of the small insects, birds, and animal people who accompany you.
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  Speaker 1: Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have brought
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  Speaker 1: down upon them. Don't worry. The heart knows the way.
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  Speaker 1: Though there may be high rises, interstates, checkpoints, armed soldiers, massacres, wars,
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  Speaker 1: and those who will despise you because they despise themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The journey might take you a few hours a day,
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  Speaker 1: a year, a few years, one hundred, a thousand, or
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  Speaker 1: even more. Watch your mind, without training, it might run
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  Speaker 1: away and leave your heart for the immense human feast
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  Speaker 1: set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets.
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  Speaker 1: When you find your way to the circle, to the
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  Speaker 1: fire kept burning by the keepers of your soul, you
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  Speaker 1: 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, increases of shame, judgment, and human abuse. You
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  Speaker 1: must call in a way that your spirit will want
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  Speaker 1: to return. Speak to it as you would to a
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  Speaker 1: beloved child. Welcome your spirit back from its wandering. It
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  Speaker 1: may return in pieces, in tatters. Gather them together. They
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  Speaker 1: will be happy to be found after being lost for
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  Speaker 1: so long. Your spirit will need to sleep awhile after
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  Speaker 1: it is bathed and given clean clothes. Now you can
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  Speaker 1: have a party. Invite every one 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, Miss 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 Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you like hearing poems like I do, I encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to download my podcasts so you can listen again
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  Speaker 1: and again. And if you'd like to hear poems read
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  Speaker 1: on the poet's own breath, you can go to any
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  Speaker 1: good poetry website and listen to a recording. For example,
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  Speaker 1: you can find audio and video recordings of Miss Harjo
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  Speaker 1: sharing some of her poems. How cool is that? So
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  Speaker 1: here are two more poems by Joy Harjo. These poems
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  Speaker 1: are also among my favorites. This first poem is called Grace.
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  Speaker 1: Grace for Darlene Wind and James Welch. I think of
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  Speaker 1: Wind and her wild ways, the year we had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to lose and lost it anyway in the first country
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  Speaker 1: of the Fox. We still talk about that winter, how
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  Speaker 1: the cold froze imaginary buffalo, and the stuffed horizon of snowbanks,
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  Speaker 1: the haunting voices of the starved and mutilated, broke fences
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  Speaker 1: crashed our thermostat dreams, and we couldn't stand it one
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  Speaker 1: more time. So once again we lost a winter in
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  Speaker 1: stubborn memory, walked through cheap apartment walls, skated through fields
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  Speaker 1: of ghosts into a town that never wanted us. In
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  Speaker 1: the epic search for grace. Like coyote, like rabbit, we
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  Speaker 1: could not contain our terror and clowned our way through
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  Speaker 1: a season of false midnights. We had to swallow that
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  Speaker 1: town with laughter, so it go down easy as honey.
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  Speaker 1: And one morning, as the sun struggled to break ice
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  Speaker 1: and our dreams had found us with coffee and pancakes
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  Speaker 1: in a truck stop along Highway eighty, we found Grace.
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  Speaker 1: I could say Grace was a woman with time on
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  Speaker 1: her hands, or a white buffalo escaped from memory, But
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  Speaker 1: 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 fall. We didn't. The
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  Speaker 1: next season was worse. You went home, home to Leech
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  Speaker 1: Lake to work with the tribe, and I went south.
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  Speaker 1: And when I am still crazy, I know there is
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  Speaker 1: something larger than the memory of a dispossessed people. We
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  Speaker 1: have seen it. I know there is something larger than
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  Speaker 1: the memory of a dispossessed people. We have seen it. Grace.
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  Speaker 1: This next poem, This next poem is called Eagle Poem,
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  Speaker 1: Egle poem. To pray you open your whole self to sky,
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  Speaker 1: to Earth, to sun, to moon, to one whole voice
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  Speaker 1: that is you, and know there is more that you
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  Speaker 1: can't see, can't hear, can't know except in moments steadily growing,
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  Speaker 1: and in languages that aren't always sound, but other circles
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  Speaker 1: of motion, Like Eagle that Sunday morning over salt River,
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  Speaker 1: circled in blue sky and wind swept our hearts clean
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  Speaker 1: with sacred wings, we see you, see our sun, and
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  Speaker 1: know that we must take the utmost care and kindness
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  Speaker 1: in all things. Breathe in, knowing we are made of
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  Speaker 1: all this, and breathe knowing we are truly blessed because
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  Speaker 1: we were born and die soon within a true circle
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  Speaker 1: 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: Eagle poem. Here it is again to pray you open
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  Speaker 1: your whole self to sky, to earth, to sun, to moon,
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  Speaker 1: to one whole voice that is you, and know there
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  Speaker 1: is more that you can't see, can't hear, can't know
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  Speaker 1: except in moments steadily growing, and in languages that aren't
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  Speaker 1: always sound, but other circles of motion, Like eagle that
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning over salt river, circled in blue sky and
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  Speaker 1: wind swept our hearts clean with sacred wings, we see you,
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  Speaker 1: see ourselves, and know that we must take the utmost
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  Speaker 1: care and kindness in all things.
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  Speaker 3: Breathe in knowing we are made of all this, and
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  Speaker 3: breathe knowing we are truly blessed because we were born
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  Speaker 3: and die soon within a true circle of motion, like
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  Speaker 3: Ego rounding out the morning inside us, we pray that
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  Speaker 3: it will be done in beauty, in.
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  Speaker 1: Beauty. Mmm mm hmm, Ego poem. This poem evokes memory,
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  Speaker 1: such deep memory and my own soul, and I know
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  Speaker 1: I can hear the Holy Spirit whispering, be still, Be still,
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  Speaker 1: Take a minute, take a moment to savor the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Maybe it's the way the sun beams
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  Speaker 1: down on the bright blue sea, or maybe it's a passing,
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  Speaker 1: a passing moment that we pause so we can relish
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  Speaker 1: that exquisite glow of the evening sun, just before it
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  Speaker 1: melts away into a bank of clouds or steams away
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  Speaker 1: into the silent sea. I love this poem for so
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  Speaker 1: many reasons, and again, I think the most significant reason
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  Speaker 1: is because it allows me. It helps me, It encourages me,
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  Speaker 1: invites me to slow, 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 Joiharjoe and her life of writing
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  Speaker 1: and music and service, be sure to visit the Poetry
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  Speaker 1: Foundation website, and the website is www dot Poetry Foundation
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  Speaker 1: dot org. Okay Poetry Foundation dot org. There you can
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  Speaker 1: read more about Miss Joy's life, you can read her poems,
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  Speaker 1: and even hear her read some of her own poems.
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  Speaker 1: You can also find information and inspiration on Miss Joy's website,
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  Speaker 1: and that's www. Dot Joyharjo dot org. Okay Joyharjo dot org.
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  Speaker 1: And you spell Harjo h a r jo Joyharjo dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just tell you something, Miss Joy? We love you,
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  Speaker 1: and we celebrate you. We lift you up during National
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  Speaker 1: Poetry Month, during Women's History Month, during Indigenous People's Month,
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  Speaker 1: and not only during those times, but we celebrate you
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  Speaker 1: every single day. We celebrate you for looking into the wind,
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  Speaker 1: for looking into the wind, for standing in the wind,
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  Speaker 1: for allowing the wind to whirl through you. We celebrate
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  Speaker 1: you for looking into the face of memory, for being
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  Speaker 1: a vessel for the voices of your ancestors and those
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  Speaker 1: who are coming in our direction. We celebrate you for
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  Speaker 1: being a music maker and a poetry baker, for your
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  Speaker 1: exquisite artistry and your amazing gifts of being awake to
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  Speaker 1: life and turning that life, the good, the gracious, the ugly,
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  Speaker 1: and the tragic into astonishing works of remembrance, of reverence,
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  Speaker 1: of restoration, of redemption. We salute you and celebrate you
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  Speaker 1: for your astounding as we express our deep, deep gratitude,
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  Speaker 1: and we thank you for showing us the inseparable power
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  Speaker 1: of music and poetry and what the power of one person,
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  Speaker 1: of one person who lives their life to make a
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  Speaker 1: difference is all about. Right now, That's exactly what we
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  Speaker 1: talked about earlier, and I promise to say more about
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  Speaker 1: how 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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