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So when you go to a place
that you don't know at all

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and they tell you you can
go back by the highway

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or you can go through
the mountains, of course

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you go through the mountains.

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And then the road
becomes a suggestion.

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And you get to go
around the long way,

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but it's all right, because
you've never been there so

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everything's an adventure.

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Somebody tell me how they can
hang those cheeses in the heat

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and they don't poison people.

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Has anybody eaten the
flowers of the Yucca plant?

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I thought that was interesting.

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They said they serve
them with scrambled eggs.

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But what you get for
every meal or any snack

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is an offer of Gallo pinto
the black beans and rice.

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Not knowing.

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When we're in an unfamiliar
place, we don't know,

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and I think that's largely
what makes art possible.

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Donald Barthelme thought so too.

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You have a chance to read it?

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OK, we're good.

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Liz says yes.

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But being in an unknown
place sharpens our focus,

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lets us meet friends we
wouldn't anywhere else.

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It lets us see the textures
of other cultures and ways

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of knowing.

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It changes how we perceive.

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And it ultimately leads
us back to mystery.

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This one's called
"Passion Flower."

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Low over this narrow strand
of land, between great oceans,

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one named for peace,
one name for Atlas,

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who lifts the sky
above the waters.

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We're airborne,
edging home, returning

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changed to places we know
better than to take for granted.

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Over the sea named for Caribs
nearly wiped out by disease,

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we sip iced water.

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Just hours ago, we gazed
into the face of passion,

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flowering this morning.

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Pura vida, most alive on tenuous
edges between hungry seas.

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Witness this moment.

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[AIRPLANE FLYING OVERHEAD]

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I'll let it go.

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Just hours ago, we gazed
into the face of passion,

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flowering this morning.

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Pura vida, most alive on tenuous
edges between hungry seas.

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Witness this moment set
off by our brief passage.

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What came before,
what comes after,

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the verge ourselves
alive, opening.

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Thank you for sharing this time.

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[APPLAUSE]

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