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Hi. Friends. Today's. Episode

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is hosted by the poet and

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writer Victoria Chang. Don't. Worry

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I'll be back on April eighth.

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And. Victoria chain. And

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this is the slowdown. I.

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Was that kind of college

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students who floated from subject

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to subject, interested in just

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about everything? By the time

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I had graduated from the

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University of Michigan, I think

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I'd considered at least five

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majors, from history to philosophy

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to literature to science to

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economics to psychology. As I've

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gotten older, I realized that

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I was and am trapped

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in a system that likes

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as to focus more and

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more until we. Are staring

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down a tiny pinhole. If.

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I could have majored in learning. I.

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Would have been a late it. One.

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Of my favorite subjects with Chinese

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history simply because of how vast

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it is. History. Also

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interest me because I am constantly

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in awe of the way that

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so much has changed. Yet, so

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much hasn't changed. Then.

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There's the idea of a continuum

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how we connect to each other

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through time. And. How we

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are each a part of something

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much larger than ourselves. I've.

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Always loved imagining how people lived

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a long time ago, what they

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thought about how they dressed, what

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they ate, One. Of

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the best ways. To see how

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people really lift is through

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pounds really old palms. Do.

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Food. Is. A poet who lived

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during the Tang Dynasty in China. From

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Seven Twenty One to Seven seventy. A

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D. T with one of

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the three most prominent poets and the

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tongue era along with Long Way and

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lead by. Two

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full lives during turbulent war

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times, which. Feels like every

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era of history including our present

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time. To.

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Fool same as he wrote about

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the and loosen rebellion was a

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general of the same name staged

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a rebellion in the tongue capital.

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To fool fled to capital but in his

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attempt to return to meet up with his

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allies. He was captured and

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imprisoned. It

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was during this time that he

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wrote many powerful and beautiful palms.

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Such as the Palm Springs View. Or

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in Chinese trend one. In

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this poem. The speaker writes about

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a broken country in the midst

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of a blooming spring, his longing

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for his family and his own

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aging. And in this

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process we get a tiny window

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into the mind As someone who.

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Lived nearly one thousand,

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three hundred years ago.

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Spring you. Buy. To fool.

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Translated by Arthur C. The

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nation is broken. But. Hills

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and rivers remain. Spring.

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Is in the city. Presses and

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trees are sick. Touched

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by the hard times, flowers

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shed tears. Grieved.

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By separations birds are startled

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in their hearts. The.

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Beacon Fires burned for three

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consecutive months. A

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letter from home would be worth

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ten thousand pieces of gold. As

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a scratch, my Whitehead. The hairs

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become fewer. So. Scarce

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that I try in vain to

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fasten them with a pin. The.

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Food Around is a production at

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American Public Media and partnerships with

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a Poetry Foundation. This project

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