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Mood Ring

By Jaswinder Bolina

Read by Tracy K. Smith

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5 min

Inside me lived a small donkey…

A poem on the everyday labor of living and the inner strength we find to go on.

Published in 2020 by American Public Media as The Slowdown number 444.

Bibtex Data

@misc{bolina-jaswinder2020-mood-ring,
    category={av},
    title={{M}ood {R}ing},
    author={Jaswinder Bolina},
    publisher={American Public Media},
    year=2020,
    month=aug,
    series={The Slowdown},
    number=444,
    minutes=5,
    keywords={feeling,craft},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2020/08/06/444-mood-ring}
}

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