Mind Flexing
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Is there a word for missing something before it's gone?
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Is there a word for missing something before it's gone?

Listen Now (10 min) | Perhaps not in English, but there's music and there's Zen.

What is that emotion you feel when something makes you so happy you become shrouded in a melancholic mist at that thing’s impermanence? Writer Alia Parker finds the answer in music and Japanese philosophy.

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Mind Flexing
Mind Flexing Sound Bites
Short thought expeditions to contemplate and inspire, with writer and journalist Alia Parker.
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