Before the new marriage. Limn: Yeah. All right. And there are times where I think people have said as a child, Oh, you come from a broken home. And I remember thinking, Its not broken, its just bigger. Yeah. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. should write, huge and round and awful. In this spirit, our ecosystem of offerings launching across 2023 serve a far-flung global web of listeners/practitioners. And Im sure it does for many of you, where you start to think about a phrase or a word comes to you and youre like, Is that a word? Youre like, With. And so I have. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project. . Starting Thursday, February 2: three months of soaring new On Being conversations, with an eye towards emergence. [laughter] Were like, Ugh, I feel calmer.. I will say this poem began I was telling you how poems begin and sometimes with sounds, sometimes with images This was a sound of, you know when everyone rolls out their recycling at the same time. The thesis has never been exile. Limn: I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. We speak the language of questions. us, still right now, a softness like a worn fabric of a nightshirt. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. would happen if we decided to survive more? I mean, thats how we read. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. some new constellations. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. Deeper truths and larger stories of ourselves as societies, as a planet, as humans, that at once complicate and enliven our capacity to live with dignity and joy and wholeness. And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. Special thanks this week to Daniel Slager, Yanna Demkiewicz, and Katie Hill at Milkweed Editions. I wonder if Im here again today or in a new place. And that was really essential to my practice of who I was as a creative person in the middle of such an enormous tragedy. In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. And enough so that actually, as I would always sort of interrogate her about her beliefs and, Do you think this, do you think that? This is science that invites us to nourish the brains we need, young and old, to live in this world. The one that always misses where Im not. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. how the wind shakes a tree in a storm Tippett: Yeah. And I found it really useful, a really useful tool to go back in and start to think about what was just no longer true, or maybe had never been true. And so I gave up on it. Its almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue. Too high for most of us with the rockets And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. Its the thing that keeps us alive. So you grew up in Sonoma, California, but my sense is that its not the land of Zinfandel and Pinot Noir that immediately comes to mind now when someone says Sonoma. [laughter] I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. Limn: And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. The conversation that resulted with the Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Sylvia Boorstein has been a companion to her and to many from that day forward. My familys all in California. And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? How are you?. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. We are located on Dakota land. I want to say first of all, how happy I am to be doing something with Milkweed, which I have known since I moved to Minnesota, I dont know, over a quarter century ago, to be this magnificent but quiet, local publisher. And then you can also be like, Im a little anxious about this thing thats happening next week. Or all of these things, it makes room for all of those things. To be swallowed no one has been writing the year lately. Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. I am asking you to touch me. Yeah. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing. [laughs]. Tippett: several years later and a changed world later. by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, Thats the work of poetry in general, right? And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course, The On Being Project I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. with a new hosta under the main feeder. And together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. Definitely. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big And poetry doesnt really allow you to do that because its working in the smallest units of sound and syllable and clause and line break and then the sentence. two brains now. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. Each of us imprints the people in the world around us . I want to say first of all, how happy I am to be doing something with Milkweed, which I have known since I moved to Minnesota, I dont know, over a quarter century ago, to be this magnificent but quiet, local publisher. Limn: Yeah. It has ever and always been true, David Whyte reminds us, that so much of human experience is a conversation between loss and celebration. But he is driven by passionate callings older and deeper than his public vocation as an actor and comedian. My grandmother is 98. You said there in a place, as Ive aged, I have more time for tenderness, for the poems that are so earnest they melt your spine a little. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. Limn: I think its definitely a writing prompt too, right? And I think there was this moment where I was like, Oh, Im just sort of living to see what happens next. And the grief is also giving me a reason to get up. So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? Why did I never see it for what it was: Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Adventures into what can replenish and orient us in this wild ride of a time to be alive: biomimicry and the science of awe; spiritual contrarianism and social creativity; pause and poetry and . Also: Kristin Brogdon, Lindsey Siders, Brad Kern, John Marks, Emery Snow and the entire staff at both Northrop and the Ted Mann Concert Hall of the University of Minnesota. July 4, 2022 9:00 am. I love that you do this. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. I think I enjoy getting older. So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. No, really I was. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? And theres sort of an invitation at the end. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). You said there in a place, as Ive aged, I have more time for tenderness, for the poems that are so earnest they melt your spine a little. out. And that is so much more present with us all the time. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. Oh, Im stressed. Oh, if you want to know about stress, let me tell you, Im stressed., Limn: I like to tell my friends when they say theyre really stressed, Ill be like, Oh, I took the most wonderful nap. The poets brain is always like that, but theres a little I was just doing the wash, and I was like, Casual, warm, and normal. And I was like, Ooh, I could really go for that.. Alice Parker Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts. We literally. Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. Krista Tippett has spent more than a decade exploring important questions of life, questions that often involve faith, science and spirituality on her popular radio program and podcast, "On Being." Tippett: If you had thought about it And you said that this would be the poem that would mean that you would never be Poet Laureate. reading skills. Tippett: Something that you reflect on a lot that I would love to just draw you out on a bit is I think people who love language the most, and work with language, also are most intensely aware of the limits of language, and thats partly why youre working so hard. I wrote in my notes, just my little note about what this was about, recycling and the meaning of it all. I dont think thats . Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? We havent read much from The Carrying, which is a wonderful book. I think this poem, for me, is very much about learning to find a home and a sense of belonging in a world where being at peace is actually frowned upon. And I know that when I discovered it for myself as a teenager that I thought, Oh, this is more like music where its like something is expressing itself to you and you are expressing yourself to it. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. Limn: Yeah. Written and read by And then what happened was the list that was in my head of poems I wasnt going to write became this poem. The caesura and the line breaks, its breath. And I think its in that category. several years later and a changed world later. Tippett: [laughs] Yeah. For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. We have been in the sun. the collar, constriction of living. a finalist for the National Book Award. So Im hoping. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Where being at ease is not okay. Draco, Lacerta, Hydra, Lyra, Lynx. Ada Limn reads her poem, "Dead Stars.". letter on the dresser, enough of the longing and And poetry doesnt really allow you to do that because its working in the smallest units of sound and syllable and clause and line break and then the sentence. Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. As . If youre having trouble writing or creating or whatever it is you make, when was the last time you just sat in silence with yourself and listened to what was happening? The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. when it flickers, when it folds up so perfectly [audience laughs] And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, My familys all in California. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. After almost 20 years on public radio at the helm of her award-winning show On Being, Krista Tippett is transitioning the weekly program to a seasonal podcast.. Tippett said that the On Being Project, her nonprofit organization that produces the show, began seeing itself a few years ago "as a media and public life organization and to figure out what it means to be that. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. And it feels important to me whenever Im in a room right now and I havent been in that many rooms with this many people sitting close together that we all just acknowledge that even if we all this exact same configuration of human beings had sat in this exact room in February 2020, and were back now, were changed at a cellular level. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, The Hurting Kind. But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. Flipboard. thats sung in silence when its too hard to go on, And it sounds like thunder? squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover. Oh, Im stressed. Oh, if you want to know about stress, let me tell you, Im stressed., I like to tell my friends when they say theyre really stressed, Ill be like, Oh, I took the most wonderful nap. Tippett: Right. We orient away from the closure of fear and towards the opening of curiosity. And that there was this break when we moved from pictographic language, which is characters which directly refer to the things spoken, and when we moved to the phonetic alphabet. But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. And its true. I write. Or theres just something happens and you get all of a sudden for it to come flooding back. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. I live in the low parts now, most but witnessed. Suppose its easy to slip They bring us together with others, again and again. She is a former host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. song. This definitely speaks to that. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. But let me say, I was taken, back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy, but I was loved each place. Amanda Ripley began her life as a journalist covering crime, disaster, and terrorism. I feel like theres a level in which it offers us a place to be that feels closer to who we are, because there is always that interesting moment where someone asks you who you are, even just the simple question of, How are you? If we really took a minute to think about it, How am I? And so I have So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. Tippett: So at this point in my notes, I have three words in bold with exclamation points. It began as "Speaking of Faith" in July 2003, and was renamed On Being in 2010. [2] Her guests include the 14th Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, Mohammed Fairouz, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rosanne Cash, Wangari Maathai, Yo-Yo Ma, Paulo Coehlo . Once it has been witnessed She hosted On Being on the radio for about two decades. Tippett: Because I couldnt decide which ones I wanted you to read. Yeah. Nothing, nothing is funny. A scholar of belonging. A scholar of magic. She grew up loving science fiction, and thought wed be driving flying cars by now; and yet, has found in speculative fiction the transformative force of vision and imagination that might in fact save us. Here it is again as an offering for Mothers Day in a world still and again in flux, and where the matter of raising new human beings feels as complicated as ever before. The next-generation marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson would let that reality of belonging show us the way forward. Thats page 95. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. red glare and then there are the bombs. To be made whole Find them at, Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. And I hope, I dont think anybody here will mind. And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. And they would say, I dont want to go to yoga. And I was like, Why? And they said, I just dont want anyone telling me when to breathe. [laughter] But its true. I will say this poem began I was telling you how poems begin and sometimes with sounds, sometimes with images This was a sound of, you know when everyone rolls out their recycling at the same time. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. But we dont need to belabor that. Interesting. What happens after we die? And she says, Well, you die, and you get to be part of the Earth, and you get to be part of what happens next. And it was just a very sort of matter-of-fact way of looking at the world. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1,000 people, packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. We have never been exiled. And it was this moment of like, Oh, this is abundance. But let me say, I was taken Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels, We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. Tippett: Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. Tippett: And also, I read somewhere that Sundays were a day that you were moving back and forth between your two homes, your parents divorced and everybody remarried. And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. Lean Spirituality. What were talking about and not when we talk about mental health. On Being, which began on public radio, has been named a best podcast by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio with more than 400 million downloads. of the kneeling and the rising and the looking The poets brain is always like that, but theres a little I was just doing the wash, and I was like, Casual, warm, and normal. And I was like, Ooh, I could really go for that.. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. Right. Limn: Exactly. Its Spanish and English, and Im trying, and Ill look at him and be like, How much degrees is it?, And hes like, Are you trying to ask me what the weather is?. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough. It wasnt used as a tool. Yeah. Can you locate that? I will trust the world and I will feel at peace. And this time, what came to me as I stood and looked at the trees was that Oh, it isnt just me looking. Limn: [laughs] Yeah. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions.". Henno Road, creek just below, adrienne maree brown "We are in a time of new suns" On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture "What a time to be alive," adrienne maree brown has written. We understand questions as technologies and virtues as social arts. into anothers green skin, Image by Danyang Ma, All Rights Reserved. for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam. We want to meet what is hard and hurting. And if I had to condense you as a poet into a couple of words, I actually think youre about and these are words you use also wholeness and balance. and enough of the pointing to the world, weary Tippett: Yeah. The caesura and the line breaks, its breath. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. But if you look at even the letters we use in our the A actually was initially a drawing of an ox, and M was water. As we turn the corner from pandemic, although we will not completely turn the corner, I just wanted to read something you wrote on Twitter, which was hilarious. And I was having this moment where I kept being like, Well, if I just deeply look at the world like I do, as poets do, I will feel a sense of belonging. How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. It unfolded at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, in collaboration with Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Ada Limns publisher, Milkweed Editions. And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. It is still the wind. Oh, thank you. its like staring into an original We are fluent in the story of our time marked by catastrophe and dysfunction. Kalliopeia Foundation. And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. The On Being Project the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left Yeah. And this poem was basically a list of all the poems I didnt think I could write, because it was the early days of the pandemic, and I kept thinking, just that poetry had kind of given up on me, I guess. Yeah. Learn more at. We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. A student of change and of how groups change together. I could. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? And Im not sure Ive had a conversation across all these years that was a more unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter laughter of delight, and of blessed relief. Tippett: as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. And now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. And I think most poets are drawn to that because it feels like what were always trying to do is say something that cant always entirely be said, even in the poem, even in the completed poem. Yet what Amanda has gone on to investigate and so, so helpfully illuminate is not just about journalism, or about politics. And this poem was basically a list of all the poems I didnt think I could write, because it was the early days of the pandemic, and I kept thinking, just that poetry had kind of given up on me, I guess. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. A dream. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. Yeah. And then there are times in a life, and in the life of the world, where only a poem perhaps in the form of the lyrics of a song, or a half sentence we ourselves write down can touch the mystery of ourselves, and the mystery of others. I have a lot of poems that basically are that. Its Spanish and English, and Im trying, and Ill look at him and be like, How much degrees is it?. by being not a witness, I wrote it and then I immediately sent it to an editor whos a friend of mine and said, I dont know if you want this. And it was up the next day on the website. Supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. And poetry, and poetry. Limn: Yeah. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. We live in a world in love with the form of words that is an opinion and the way with words that is an argument. We elevate voices of wisdom and models of wise thinking, speaking, and living. Yet it is a deep truth in life as in science that each of us is shaped as much by the quality of the questions we are asking as by the answers we have it in us to give. This is a moving and edifying conversation that is also, not surprisingly, a lot of fun. Theres daytime silent when I stare, and nighttime silent when I do things. We offer it here as an audio experience, and we think you will enjoy being in . for the water to stop shivering out of the And the right habitat for that, for all human flourishing, is for us to begin with a sense of belonging, with a sense of ease, with a sense that even though we are desirous and even though we want all of these things, right now, being alive, being human is enough. even the tenacious high school band off key. And both parents all four of my parents, I should say would point those things out, that special quality of connectedness that the natural world offers us. , there are these two poems on facing pages, that both have fire in the title. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. And the Q has the tail of a monkey, and weve forgotten this. Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? And I think about that all the time. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. Then three years later, Tippett left American Public Media to create her own production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which has aligned with WNYC/New York Public Radio to distribute the show to affiliates nationwide. And I feel like the thing that always kept coming back to me, especially in the early days was, What does it do? Well right now it anchors you to the world again and again and again. Yeah. I mean, I do right now. What. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two Funny thing about grief, its hold Tippett: So can we just engage in this intellectual exercise with you because its completely fascinating and Im not sure whats going on, and Id like you to tell me. 4.07 avg rating 5,187 ratings published 2016 20 editions. Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, has become a leading figure in narrative nonfiction with The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste. These full-body experiences of isolation and ungrieved losses and loneliness and fear and uncertainty. Just my little note about what this was about, recycling and the line breaks its. Grief is also, not surprisingly, a softness like a worn fabric of newsletter. 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