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This new book is--

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so Taylor Swift had the Eras
Tour, so this is my Eras Tour,

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basically.

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It's sort of like everything.

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And so I love NPR,
and it kind of

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got me through the
pandemic besides Bob

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getting me through the pandemic.

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But I love that you
discover like jellyfish age

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and get younger
at the same time.

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How's that?

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[LAUGHTER] It's true.

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"Micro-Minutes on
Your Way to Work"

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So this is for someone
who is very shy

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but has to work with
people all the time.

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Days are unusual.

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The owl sends

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out 5 zeros from the pines

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plus one small silver nothing.

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Where

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do they float?

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Maybe out to

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sea where jellyfish
are aging left

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and right.

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They have some nerve.

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Today, no new wars, probably.

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No

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big button.

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The owl could be

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your scholar of trapped light or

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Walter Benjamin
who writes a storm

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blows in from paradise.

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Thinking through

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these things each
week, you cross

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the bridge-- gold
coils, fog, feelings.

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Syllables also can
grow younger like

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those jellyfish.

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You bring your quilt

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of questions in the car.

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At

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work, you'll have to be patient

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at the risky
enterprise of talking

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to other people;
so little progress

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in this since the Pleistocene.

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Mostly,

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though, you're calm
when traveling-- silver

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nothing, moving
right and left; day

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releasing the caged
stars; one thought

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mixed with no-thought,
packed with light.

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