Transcript
Call to Mind Narrator (0:00)
Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder. At least half of us will experience a mental illness in our lifetime. In a new series of special reports from Call to Mind, we hear about the mental health impact of stress, climate change, immigration and more. Tune in for conversations with people managing hardship and experts seeking solutions. Listen to Call to Mind from American Public Media.
Liberty Mutual Spokesperson (0:32)
And Doug there's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual, even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show.
Liberty Mutual Partner (0:41)
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this, your first date?
Liberty Mutual Spokesperson (0:45)
Oh, no. We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird.
Liberty Mutual Partner (0:52)
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league.
Liberty Mutual Spokesperson (0:53)
Anyways, get a quote@libertymutual.com or with your local agent.
Call to Mind Narrator (0:57)
Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty.
Maggie Smith (1:06)
I'm Maggie Smith, and this is the Slow down. The playwright Susan Laurie Parks once said, there are aspects of music that I borrow and use in my work. Repetition and revision. A big part of jazz is repeat and revise and repeat and revise. That's what my work is all about. Repetition is often a way of building momentum. As I write with each repetitive word or phrase, I can feel myself chipping away at an idea, uncovering it, getting closer to what I'm trying to articulate. Repetition can also be a way of
Poet Hedara Bar Nadav (2:04)
turning something over and over in my hands.
Maggie Smith (2:08)
Often I'll vary the usage slightly, as if looking at the idea from various angles, noticing how the light hits each facet. One of the magic tricks of repetition is that it enacts remembering.
Poet Hedara Bar Nadav (2:27)
Think about it.
Maggie Smith (2:29)
Memory itself is a kind of haunting, and repetition is a kind of haunting in a text. Another magic trick of repetition is that
