Author and Atlantic staff writer James Parker has been creating odes about everything from squirrels to crying babies on planes.  And now there's a collection in book form- Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes.   The story behind the stories?  Parker chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.

Techstination Interview: Author James Parker on odes & his book Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes

Odes to Daniel ((INSTRUMENTAL))

**Carpe Diem**, une expression issue des *Odes* du poète romain Horace, signifie "cueille le jour". Elle invite à profiter du moment présent sans trop s’inquiéter de l’avenir, souvent incertain. Inspirée par la brièveté de la vie, cette philosophie encourage à savourer chaque instant, à vivre pleinement et à saisir les opportunités qui se présentent. Populaire dans la culture contemporaine, elle rappelle que le bonheur se trouve dans l’ici et maintenant, loin des regrets du passé et des craintes du futur.

CARPE DIEM

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A meeting between the Little Prince and Jonathan Livingston the seagull, between Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, between Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith, or Archimedes and Newton, all while passing through an explanation of Plato's myth of the cave, kinesiology, the four Toltec agreements, Diogenes syndrome, and Pareto's law, not to mention a tribute to Michel Legrand, François Truffaut, Louis de Funes, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, and Jacques Tati... all while passing through a hymn to prime rib, the recipe for cassoulet, sauerkraut, paella, veal blanquette, and the art of the aperitif.

This is our musical universe. From rap to country, reggae, jazz, blues, and so many others.

Each theme deserves a suitable musical style.

Let's not forget our nods to New York, Miami, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong, Moscow, Barcelona, ​​Lisbon, London, kyiv, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Marrakech, Los Angeles and Beijing... each in the language of their country.

ITS ABOUT LOVE. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN, IT ALWAYS WILL BE! NO MORE GREED, NO MORE BULLSHIT. I MAKE IT BIG I WILL GIVE EVERYTHING BACK AND SHOW THE WORLD ITS NOT ABOUT MONEY! MONEY..... SUCH A RIDICULOUS CONCEPT! BUT WHILE IT IS NECESSARY, I WILL USE IT ONLY TO HELP OTHERS AND SET THE STAGE FOR A NEW WAVE OF LOVE AND SELFLESSNESS AND PEACE! I BELEIVE ITS IN US, ALL OF US. WE CAN BE MORE. WE ARE NOT CHRIST'S, WE ARE CHRISTS!

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