Today’s poem is On Being by Ruben Quesada. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem captures our complex relationship with nature, how we experience the sublime of the seasons, but also, the way it is often mediated through our modern and mechanized era.”

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