Aaron Smith

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2,298 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 25 Aug

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And I don't know what order these shows have come out in, but we've talked about attention spans and how we're just everybody wants things in a clip.

So we're going to, you know, read a couple of longer ones.

And I think they're terrific.

This one, as I say, people listening over all of our 200 plus shows, probably 250 at this point.

The 1993 Best American Poetry was life changing for me.

And this Tim Dugo's poem is in that volume edited by Louise Glick.

And it is healing the world from Battery Park.

And when I lived in New York City, I ate lunch at Battery Park a lot because I worked close to there.

I worked by the Wall Street Bull, like up in that building.

And I would just look out and I'd always think of Tim Dugo's writing, you know, from there.

So it starts with an epigraph.

It's a Tibetan mantra.

Om Tara, Tu Tara, Tir Savaha.

Healing the World from Battery Park.

Draw a deep breath.

Hold it.

Let it go.

That's the smell of the ocean.

Our forebears held from out there.

There's a stele to mark the spot where Minuit exchanged a mess of beads and trinkets for this island.

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