we never sing, the third that mentions no refuge So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to Be Whole Nick just recorded. Nick Offerman has played many great characters, most famously Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation, and he starred more recently in an astonishing episode of The Last of Us. Tune in now. And that was in shorter supply than one would think. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. [laughter] But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. On Being with Krista Tippett is about focusing on the immensity of our lives. Exactly. Shes teaching me a lesson. I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. What is the thesis word or the wind? Its that Buddhist, the finger pointing at the moon, right? I think thats very true. And so thats really a lot of how I was raised. , and its a villanelle, so its got a very strict rhyme scheme. And I kept thinking how I missed all my family, and I missed my father and his wife, and I missed my mother and stepfather. 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 . Jen Bailey, and so many of you. I write. Tippett: That just took me back to this moment in the pandemic where I took so many walks in my neighborhood that Ive lived in for so many years and saw things Id never seen before, including these massive Just suddenly looking down where the trees were and seeing and understanding, just really having this moment where I understood that its their neighborhood and Im living in it. of the kneeling and the rising and the looking And I would just have these whole moments when people would be like, Oh, and then well meet in person. And I was like, , I dont want you to witness my body. A special offering from Krista Tippett and all of us at On Being: an incredible, celebratory event listening back and remembering forwards across 20 years of this show in the good company of our beloved friend and former guest, Rev. Because I was teaching on Zoom, and I was just a face, and I found myself being very comfortable with just being a face, and with just being a head. and gloss. She hosts the On Being podcast and leads The On Being Project, a non-profit media and public life initiative that pursues deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. 10 distinct works Similar authors. So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. The phrase mental health itself makes less and less sense in light of the wild interactivity we can now see between what weve falsely compartmentalized as physical, emotional, mental, even spiritual. Limn: Yeah. red glare and then there are the bombs. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. Limn: Yeah. and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis This is amazing. if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough And then I would say in terms of the sacred, it was always the natural world. That arresting notion, and the distinction Rachel Naomi Remen draws between curing and healing, makes this an urgent offering to our world of healing we are all called to receive and to give. And actually, it seemed to me that your marriage was in fine shape. We nurture virtues that build muscle memory towards sustained new realities including generous listening, embodied presence, and transformative relationship across backgrounds and lived experience. The wonder of biomimicry. So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? Now, somethings, breaking always on the skyline, falling over We orient away from the closure of fear and towards the opening of curiosity. Limn: Yeah. 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. Oh, definitely. podcast, this great poetry podcast for a while and. And this particular poem was written after the 2017 fires in my home valley of Sonoma. And now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. And we all have this, our childhood stories. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. 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. Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? And so its giving room to have those failures be a breaking open and for someone else to stand in it and bring whatever they want to it. Right now we are in a fast river together every day there are changes that seemed unimaginable until they occurred. adrienne maree brown and others use many words and phrases to describe what she does, and who she is: A student of complexity. Tippett: Which also makes it spiritual practice. I live in the low parts now, most Learn more at. thats sung in silence when its too hard to go on, Once it has been witnessed Its the thing that keeps us alive. These full-body experiences of isolation and ungrieved losses and loneliness and fear and uncertainty. I'm not often one for Schadenfreude, but I may have felt it a bit yesterday, when friend told me that they'd heard NPR announce that Krista Tippett 's "On Being" Show, which I've railed against for years, is finally ending its two-decade stint on NPR. There is also an ordinary and abundant unfolding of dignity and care and generosity, of social creativity and evolution and breakthrough. The caesura and the line breaks, its breath. Limn: I remember having this experience I was sort of very deeply alone during the early days of the pandemic when my husbands work brought him to another state. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? Supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. In me, a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. We are fluent in the story of our time marked by catastrophe and dysfunction. So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. Page 20. My body is for me. [audience laughter] And it really struck me that how much I was like, How do I move through this world? Remembering what it is to be a body, I think to be a woman who moves through the world with a body, who gets commented on the body. 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. I think there are things we all learned also. Where being at ease is not okay. I think we all came a little bit more alive. And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. It just offers more questions. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. of the mother and the child and the father and the child Limn: It is still the wind. I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. Find Krista Tippett's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. She hosts the On Being podcast and leads The On Being Project, a non-profit media and public life initiative that pursues deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. Krista Tippett is the author of Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living and the host of the national public radio show and podcast On Being. This is a gift. And that reframing was really important to me. beneath us, and I was just s wisdom and her poetry a refreshing, full-body experience of how this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being human at all times, but especially now. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. 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. its like staring into an original Limn: When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. Tippett: Thats so wonderful. This is like a self-care poem. Bottlebrush trees attract On Being with Krista Tippett | 5 minute podcast summaries on Apple . Limn: Not the Saddest Thing in the World, All day I feel some itchiness around Tippett: Right. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. On Being with Krista Tippett. And then what happened was the list that was in my head of poems I wasnt going to write became this poem. 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. No, theres so much to enjoy. cigarette smoke or expertise in recipes or What is the thesis word or the wind? Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. And for us, it was Sundays. Limn: There was a bit of like, Eww, lover. [laughter], Easy light storms in through the window, soft And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. not forgetting and star bodies and frozen birds, Youll see why in a minute. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. Who am I to live? Right? of dust and I wish to reclaim the rising. Oh, thank you. As . about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. Ive got a bone 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. I think there are things we all learned also. What if we stood up with our synapses and flesh and said, No. Flipboard. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. Sylvia gifts us this teaching: that nurturing childrens inner lives can be woven into the fabric of our days and that nurturing ourselves is also good for the children and everyone else in our lives. Because how do we care for one another? So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. Limn: Yeah. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. Tippett: No, theres so much to enjoy. 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. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg inward and the looking up, enough of the gun, 25 Sep. 2014. Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course, Enough of us across all of our differences see that we have a world to remake. And I love it, but I think that you go to it, as a poet, in an awareness of not only its limitations and its failures, but also very curious about where you can push it in order to make it into a new thing. So its actually about fostering yourself in the sun, in the right place, creating the right habitat. We hold each other. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. the pummeling of youth. of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume, . Before the road 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. Seems like a good place for a close-eyed But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. We touch each other. So the poem you wrote, Joint Custody. You get asked to read it. on the back of my dads Tippett: Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. Okay. Our younger listeners have asked to hear adrienne maree browns voice on On Being, and here she is, as we enter our own time of evolution. The bright side is not talked about. I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. I have decided that Im here in this world to be moved by love and [to] let myself be moved by beauty. Which is such a wonderful mission statement. No, question marks. I feel like the short poem, maybe read that one, the After the Fire poem is such a wonderful example of so much of what weve been talking about, how poetry can speak to something that is impossible to speak about. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. And poetry is absolutely this is not something I knew would happen when I started this but poetry now is at the heart of. so mute its almost in another year. With an unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter laughter of delight, and of blessed relief this conversation holds not only what we have traversed these last years, but how we live forward. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. 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. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. Im so excited for your tenure representing poetry and representing all of us, and Im excited that you have so many more years of aging and writing and getting wiser ahead, and we got to be here at this early stage. And for us, it was Sundays. And I feel like its very interesting when you actually have to get away from it, because you can also do the other thing where you focus too much on the breath. no hot gates, no house decayed. Tippett: I love that. Peabody Award-winning host Krista Tippett presents a live, in-person recording of the wildly popular On Being podcast, featuring guest speaker Isabel Wilkerson. could save the hireling and the slave? Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: We're increasingly attentive, in our culture, to the many faces of depression and its cousin, anxiety, and we're fluent in the languages of psychology and medication.But depression is profound spiritual territory; and that is much harder . I am asking you to touch me. Many have turned to David Whyte for his gorgeous, life-giving poetry and his wisdom at the interplay of theology, psychology, and leadership his insistence on the power of a beautiful question and of everyday words amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life. Subscribe to the live your best life newsletter Sign up for the oprah.com live your best life newsletter Get more stories like this delivered to your inbox Get updates on your favorite . until every part of it is run through with So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? 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. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the wise people in our world. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. 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. And theres sort of an invitation at the end. Krista Tippett founded and leads "The On Being Project," hosts the globally esteemed On Being public radio show and podcast, and curates the "Civil Conversat. And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our Foundations for Being Alive Now. They are honoring and recovering the fullness of the human experience the life of the mind, the truth of the body, the wild mystery of the spirit, and our need for each other. But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. April 4, 2008. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. We say, Oh, I want to write about this flower. And then we say, Why this flower? 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 more towards stretching into this world ahead with dignity, wisdom and joy. enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy and over against the ground, sometimes. And so I think my investigation or my curiosity is not so much talking about poetry, but about where poetry comes from in us and what poetry works in us. And the title comes from when youre planting a tree and youre looking for where the sun is the right space, you can draw where the circles are, and theyll tell you to plant where the circles overlap. Alice Parker is a wise and joyful thinker and writer on this truth, and has been a hero in the universe of choral music as a composer . To be made whole/ by being not a witness,/ but witnessed. Can you say a little bit about that? There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies that Kimberley Wilson takes us on this hour. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. We can forget this. Limn: I love it. [Music: Molerider by Blue Dot Sessions]. And it often falls apart from me. maybe dove, maybe dunno to be honest, too embryonic, too see-through and wee. All right. Tippett: I mean, even that question you asked, What am I supposed to do with all that silence? Thats one way to talk about the challenge of being human and walking through a life. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. We understand love as the most reliably transformative muscle of human wholeness, and we investigate the workings of love as public practice. We havent read much from The Carrying, which is a wonderful book. I feel like the short poem, maybe read that one, the After the Fire poem is such a wonderful example of so much of what weve been talking about, how poetry can speak to something that is impossible to speak about. But its about more than that. Tippett: And that is so much more present with us all the time. We want to meet what is hard and hurting. Tippett: Thank you. And I was feeling very isolated. Its the . Before the koi were all eaten We surface this as a companion for the frontiers we are all on just by virtue of being alive in this time. Unknown. Youre very young. And its page six of The Hurting Kind. The Adventure of Civility. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. We are located on Dakota land. Anthem. Limn: Oh, thank you. big enough not to let go: Tippett: Because I couldnt decide which ones I wanted you to read. 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. Thats page 95. to pick with whoever is in charge. 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. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. We envision a world that is more fluent in its own humanity and thus able to rise to the great challenges and promise of this century. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. with their fish tanks or eight-tracks or What if we stood up with our synapses and flesh and said. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). On Being with Krista Tippett. That just took me back to this moment in the pandemic where I took so many walks in my neighborhood that Ive lived in for so many years and saw things Id never seen before, including these massive Just suddenly looking down where the trees were and seeing and understanding, just really having this moment where I understood that its their neighborhood and Im living in it. [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 . I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, Mosaque Liste Walking in Wonder Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World - ebook (ePub) John Quinn . We are in the final weeks as On Being evolves to its next chapter in a world that is evolving, each of us changed in myriad ways weve only begun to process and fathom. You should take a nap.. How to make that more vibrant, more visible, and more defining? Why did I never see it for what it was: Limn: Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. I think there was also he also was a singer, so he would just sing. It is the world and the trees and the grasses and the birds looking back. Im Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. 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. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Ada Limn reads her poem, "Dead Stars.". Cracking time open, seeing its true manifold nature, expands a sense of the possible in the here and the now. I think there were these moments that that quietness, that aloneness, that solitude, that as hard as they were, I think hopefully weve learned some lessons from that. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. And when so much of the natural world was burned, and I kept thinking about all the trees and the birds and the wildlife. Tippett: Just back to this idea that there is this organic automatically breathing thing of which were part, and that we even have to rediscover that. Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. On Being with Krista Tippett On Being Studios Society & Culture 4.6 9.1K Ratings; A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. Tippett: 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. In between my tasks, I find a dead fledgling, So its a very special place. 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. the date at the top of a letter; though I love it that youre already thinking that. Or call 1-800-MY-APPLE. If you think about it, its not a good So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. for the safety of others, for earth, Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. You boiled it down. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. 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. This might be hard for some of you right here. The one that always misses where Im not. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. Just the title of this, I feel is such an invitation and not the kind of invitation that was being made. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living by Krista Tippe at the best online prices at eBay! several years later and a changed world later. Theres shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then theres a silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I cant be quiet anymore. Tippett: I do feel like you were one of the people who was really writing with care and precision and curiosity about what we were going through. Yeah. [laughter] Where some of you were like, Eww, as soon as I said it. And we all have this, our childhood stories. I love that you do this. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama . And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. Krista Tippett. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. What a time to be alive, adrienne maree brown has written. Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerers Braiding Sweetgrass. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. We keep forgetting about Antlia, Centaurus, Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. what you would miss. Maybe that speaks for itself. Yeah. This is a moving and edifying conversation that is also, not surprisingly, a lot of fun. Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned. Between. a breaking open, a breaking "On Being," a weekly interview show about the mysteries of human existence, hosted by Krista Tippett, airs on nearly 400 public radio stations, with more than half a million weekly listeners . What Amanda has been gathering by way of answers to that question is an extraordinary gift to us all. into an expansion, a heat. I mean, thats how we read. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. Tippett: Yeah, it was completely unnatural. So we have to do this another time. Limn: And then Ill say this, that the Library of Congress, theyre amazing, and the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, had me read this poem, so. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista. And I want you to read it. But when we talk about the limitations of language in general, I find language is so strange. 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