While we’re on hiatus preparing for a new season of Rethink the Way You Sell, we wanted to bring you some content from Jeff you probably haven’t heard before. Jeff produced a premium podcast called Deeper Thought from 2020-2022 and you’re about to hear one of those episodes. Enjoy!

This is an enhanced audio version of the Deeper Thought post "Juxtaposition" written by DeJuan Brown, including a reading by and interview with the author.

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In the months before the sun shone, and the days before the exhale

When beauty became ashes, and inner voices said we'd fail

We stood over glasses, afraid to kneel, evading gravity's pull

So much empty space, but only from a lower place, could we see it as half-full

Why us? Why now? Interrogatives shake once declarative foundations

Psychological anxiety turns to physical pain, tell the Doctor we're losing patience!

So much lament- from pipelines and Presidents to lifelines from quarantined residents, and increasing reticence

My reticence decreases, in gratitude for being employed, the freedoms that I've enjoyed, the home in which I'm adored

Anxiety leaves my body- I'm so grateful to be insured, I can patiently endure as I recall just how much more--{whisper} "we've been through"

I can state this, 'yes I'm sure!' My foundation is secure, half-full I clearly see as my face lifts from the floor

I look backward to move forward, fashion ashes into swords, all self-speak is ignored if with growth it doesn't accord

For in the months before the sun shone, and the days before the exhale

I reminisce on trials and tribulations of the past, and how we excelled

We will prevail, 'for even in defeat, there's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens it up for me'- to quote Jay-Z

Conscious juxtaposition, peace is as much a decision about the adjustment of vision away from what you've been missing and toward what you've been given

Choose wisely.

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