dayenu. dayenu is a hebrew word that means, "it would have been enough." and dayenu is a song meditation. it's the most popular song at the seder, and it works this way. there are 15 verses and each verse is a different stage in the journey the israelites made from being slaves in egypt to being free in the promised land. and after each verse is said, everyone yells out "dayenu." in fact, say the word "dayenu." dayenu. now dayenu doesn't only have to be a passover practice. i use dayenu as a daily practice, a kind of marinade for my consciousness. it works this way. if i got up early in the morning to see my beautiful children peacefully sleeping, but my car broke down and i didn't make my meeting... dayenu. if a friend called who i hadn't spoken to in more than a decade and i reconnected to him, but that deal that i was working on fell through... dayenu. if that deal came through, but i didn't get those tickets to the stones concert that i really wanted... dayenu. you see, our life journey i

i can remember coming home from school... ♪ da-dayenu, da-dayenu, da-dayenu... ♪ and i think i learned actually, in girl scouts. perfect. but i had no idea what it really means. i mean, this is something that can really... i mean, talk about shifting your perspective.... well, this has been all about shifting perspective, you know. the thing about dayenu, and it's such a basic practice, is, so often we get caught in imagining and worrying about what's way ahead and we lose sight of the present and sometimes we're... you know, we're in the present and we lose sight of our real dreams. and dayenu says you can have both. you got to dream really big and you got to live in the present. you know, and for me, that's precisely what this program is about and what so much of public television is about. because you have to actually have a dream. and if you think about the public television schedule and you think about all the programming, there's always a dream implicit in public television about a way this society could be, about the community... about the way we could be. where else do you have