Thats page 95. Suppose its easy to slip Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Thats the work of poetry in general, right? so mute its almost in another year. And I knew that at 15. And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. 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." And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. 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. and gloss. Its still the elements. Anthem. My familys all in California. Limn: Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. Nov 19, 2022, 8:00pm PST. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. [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 . Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume, . Why did I never see it for what it was: 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. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. , the galley in the mail from Milkweed. Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. 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. 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. 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 the one that is so relieved to finally be home. 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. A friend, lover, come back to the five-and-dime. unpoisoned, the song thats our birthright, Thats so wonderful. 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. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. 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. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. I love it that youre already thinking that. Limn: Yeah. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. wind? The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. Yeah. Why that color? I was actually born at home. We hold each other. But at a deeper level, she says, we are trapped in a pattern of distress known as high conflict where the conflict itself has become the point, and it sweeps everything into its vortex. 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. She hosted On Being on the radio for about two decades. It sends us back to work with the raw materials of our lives, understanding that these are always the materials even of change at a cosmic or a societal level. Once it has been witnessed All year, Ive said, You know whats funny? Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a much-loved show as her voice was just rising in common life. We can forget this. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. From Feb 2: three months of soaring conversations to live and grow with with an eye towards emergence. We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others.. And for us, it was Sundays. Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. 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. [laughs]. Musings and tools to take into your week. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. But I think there was something deeper going on there, which was that idea of, Oh, this is when you pack up and you move. And I even had a pet mouse named Fred, which you would think I wouldve had a more creative name for the mouse, but his name was Fred. On Being is an hour-long radio show and podcast, hosted by Krista Tippett. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, The Hurting Kind. and over against the ground, sometimes. And also that phrase, as Ive aged. You say that a lot and I would like to tell you that you have a lot more aging to do. And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. We want to meet what is hard and hurting. and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). 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. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Yeah, that was true. I almost think that this poem could be used as a meditation. [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. So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. What is the thesis word or the wind? Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower. thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant. And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. That its not my neighborhood, and they look beautiful. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award. And also that notion and these are other things you said that poetry recognizes our wholeness. To be made whole 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. I trust those moments where it feels like, Oh, right, this is a weird. Language is strange, and its evolving. 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. Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. And just as there are callings for a life, there are callings for our time. And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. On Being with Krista Tippett December 6, 2016. for it again, the hazardous This might be hard for some of you right here. 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. has lost everything, when its not a weapon, when it flickers, when it folds up so perfectly, you can keep it until its needed, until you can, love it again, until the song in your mouth feels, like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung. He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. Tippett: To be made whole/ by being not a witness,/ but witnessed. Can you say a little bit about that? 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. Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. And the next one is Dead Stars. Which follows a little bit in terms of how do we live in this time of catastrophe that also calls us to rise and to learn and to evolve. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. So its actually about fostering yourself in the sun, in the right place, creating the right habitat. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. into anothers, that sounds like a match being lit Supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. Find them at, Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. unpoisoned, the song thats our birthright. two brains now. Too high for most of us with the rockets. This is not a problem. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. Krista Tippett (2) Rsultats tris par. Okay. The Hearthland Foundation. Easy light storms in through the window, soft, edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels, nest rigged high in the maple. We say, Oh, I want to write about this flower. And then we say, Why this flower? And it often falls apart from me. Alex Cochran, Deseret News. Tippett: Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. until every part of it is run through with Between. big enough not to let go: Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg And its page six of. [laughs] I get four parents that come to the school nights. And I felt like I was not brave enough to own that for myself. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. And I hope, I dont think anybody here will mind. The one that always misses where Im not, Robin is a botanist and also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. its like staring into an original Shes written, Science polishes the gift of seeing, Indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language. An expert in moss a bryologist she describes mosses as the coral reefs of the forest. Robin Wall Kimmerer opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as inanimate. This means that I am in a reciprocal relationship with the natural world, not that it is my job to be the poet that goes and says, Tree, I will describe it to you. [audience laughs] I have a lot of poems that basically are that. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. Limn: And to feel that moment of everyone recognizing what it is to kind of look out for one another and have to do that in the antithesis of who we are, which was to separate. I think there are things we all learned also. Kalliopeia Foundation. Written and read by 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. How are you?. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. On Being is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project. A student of change and of how groups change together. Page 40. Image by Danyang Ma, All Rights Reserved. On her show she promoted her new book, Einstein's God, and if the show is any indication, this new enterprise promises to be a fun fest for people inclined . 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. squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover, And this is about your childhood, right? and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. Yeah. And then it hits you or something you, like you touch a doorknob, and it reminds you of your mothers doorknob. what a word, what a world, this gray waiting. now even when it is ordinary. 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. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. Because how do we care for one another? I think we all came a little bit more alive. Im Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. 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. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. Its a prose poem. Good, good. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. 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. 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? One of the most popular episodes in the history of "On Being," the 15-year-old public-radio program hosted by the honey-voiced Krista Tippett, is a conversation Tippett had more than ten years ago with the late Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the subject of the inner landscape of beauty. And the next one is Dead Stars. Which follows a little bit in terms of how do we live in this time of catastrophe that also calls us to rise and to learn and to evolve. The podcast's foundation is the same as the groundbreaking radio concept. Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating. Limn: Kind of true. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. Yeah. Limn: Exactly. And I always thought it was just because I had to work. And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. Tippett: Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. Limn: Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. In fact, Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful Ocean Vuong right on the cusp of that turning, in March 2020, in a joyful and crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. 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. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. 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. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. 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.. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. Just the title of this, I feel is such an invitation and not the kind of invitation that was being made. And were you writing. reading skills. like the flag, how it undulates in the wind And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. Tippett: So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. And the one Id love you to read is Not the Saddest Thing in the World. This is the one where I felt like theres subtlety to it, but you just named so much in there. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called "Complicating the Narratives," which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. Limn: Right. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? We value the ancient power of storytelling, and we get that good stories require conflict, characters and scene. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover. Shes teaching me a lesson. I write. Its almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue I could. Now, somethings, breaking always on the skyline, falling over. Learn more at kalliopeia.org. and then, We practice moral imagination; we embrace paradoxical curiosity; we sit with conflict and complexity; we create openings instead of seeking answers or providing reductive simplicity. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. Perhaps, has an unsung third stanza, something brutal, snaking underneath us as we absentmindly sing, the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands, hoping our team wins. So, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened World.. And what of the stanzas 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 . 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? Once it has been witnessed, and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary, now even when it is ordinary. Yeah. 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. in an endless cave, the song that says my bones Come back, And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. rolling their trash bins out, after all of this is over? 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. , there are these two poems on facing pages, that both have fire in the title. Tune in now. No shoes and a glossy And that was in shorter supply than one would think. So in The Carrying, there are these two poems on facing pages, that both have fire in the title. The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being . Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. 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