WEBVTT - Look through vacation photos 

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to look through your old vacation photos.

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<v Speaker 1>You may not be traveling to as many places now

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<v Speaker 1>as you have in recent years, but spending ten minutes

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<v Speaker 1>looking through photos of lovely scenery or maybe your happy

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<v Speaker 1>family in those lovely scenes can be a great pick

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<v Speaker 1>me up. It definitely beats doom scrolling. Like most of us,

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<v Speaker 1>I spend way more time on my phone than I

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<v Speaker 1>probably should. It's the simplest thing to use when I'm

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<v Speaker 1>feeding the baby, or board and waiting somewhere. I try

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<v Speaker 1>to choose good things to do with it, like texting

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<v Speaker 1>friends or reading on my kindle app but sometimes I

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<v Speaker 1>do other things. Probably most of us do. But when

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<v Speaker 1>you don't feel like we or connecting, there is one

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<v Speaker 1>more option beyond reading the political musings on Facebook from

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<v Speaker 1>your second cousin or that guy you never did like

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<v Speaker 1>in high school. Many of us use our phones as

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<v Speaker 1>our cameras. That means we have lots of old photos

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<v Speaker 1>saved on their phones. These can be a timeline of

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<v Speaker 1>our lives, including some real highlights. You can look through

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<v Speaker 1>photos of vacations and for a few minutes mentally transport

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<v Speaker 1>yourself elsewhere. I have been doing this lately as time

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<v Speaker 1>without much travel stacks up. We canceled our trip over Christmas,

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<v Speaker 1>and we haven't booked anything for spring since there's so

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<v Speaker 1>much uncertainty, and so there are no trips on my

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<v Speaker 1>calendar right now that I am looking forward to. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>we'll do something last minute if things open up, but

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<v Speaker 1>for now I'm relying more un mental time travel. I

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<v Speaker 1>looked back through two thousand nineteen photos, particularly to a

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<v Speaker 1>lovely island trip in the spring that the kids keep

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<v Speaker 1>talking about. Yosemite in the summer with those posing rock

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<v Speaker 1>faces was certainly a memorable time. I even like looking

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<v Speaker 1>at gorgeous fall photos I took on a walk when

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<v Speaker 1>I went to Seattle for work before people stopped traveling

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<v Speaker 1>for work. It's not the same as a vacation, of course,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's not bad either. Indeed, my older kids and

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<v Speaker 1>I once spent a few hours when we had no

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<v Speaker 1>internet access looking through old photos on my phone. We

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<v Speaker 1>looked at when they were younger. We rehashed memories. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>remember when we did that? That was so much fun.

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<v Speaker 1>We should do that again. This can be a fun

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<v Speaker 1>family activity when again, there are fewer fun family activities

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<v Speaker 1>available than we might want. In any case, if we

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<v Speaker 1>take these photos, and there's no doubt that many of

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<v Speaker 1>us take a lot, we may as well enjoy them.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't do much just sitting there looking at them. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>lets us experience some of the pleasure we had in

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<v Speaker 1>the moment. When we share the memory with others, we

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<v Speaker 1>increase the pleasure and we all feel closer. That is

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of upside for something you can do on

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<v Speaker 1>your phone. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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<v Speaker 1>and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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