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What Is Your Perfect Day In Song?

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Dec 19, 2024
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I recently watched an interview with the great documentarian, Ken Burns on the Blocks podcast with comedian Neil Brennan. Burns and Brennan were discussing the concept of staying in the moment, and Burns pointed out that no matter when we find it, there is only one moment.

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The concept kinda split my mind open a bit, but I was immediately intrigued. He spoke of the moment as if were a continual river always waiting for us to dip our feet into its flow. The moment is not a single thing that pops up and then disappears, it is always there. We can think about the past. We can consternate over the future. Those concepts are esoteric and illusory. The moment is here whenever we are willing to access it.

I’ve spent so much of my now life in a fog missing millions of moments. In recent years, I have learned to take hold of the moment and get the most from i…

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