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. Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. Poems all come to me differently. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. unnoticed, sometimes covered up like sorrow. 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. The Osprey Foundation a catalyst for empowered, healthy, and fulfilled lives. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. Limn: Yeah. to pick with whoever is in charge. It is still the wind. Tippett: The thesis. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified. Yeah. is a murderous light, so strong. writes the word lover in a note and Im strangely, excited for the word lover to come back. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. like something almost worth living for. Limn: Yeah. Do you remember the Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert was doing the earlier show, and he had this one skit where he said, I love breathing, I could do it all day long. [laughter] And I always think about that because of course, its so ironic that we have to think about our breath. But its also a land that is really incredibly beautiful and special and sacred in a lot of different ways. So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). red helmet, I rode maybe dove, maybe dunno to be honest, too embryonic, too see-through and wee. I do think I enjoy it. A friend, lover, come back to the five-and-dime. In between my tasks, I find a dead fledgling, A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, Why not that weed? Our entire world is spent that way. And then I would be like, Okay, I was there. And the next day Id wake up and be like, Well, I was there yesterday. Helping to build a more just, equitable and connected America one creative act at a time. I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. , which was a couple of years before that, certainly pre-pandemic, in the before times, was the way you wrote, a way that you spoke of the same story of yourself. Want to Read. It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. But I mean, Ive listened to every podcast shes done, so Im aware. 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. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. Centuries of pleasure before us and after Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Tippett: Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. Yeah. Tune in now. And also Im so happy to be together with you in the old-fashioned flesh, which we no longer take for granted. Youre very young. and hand, the space between. Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. What follows is the transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Andrew Solomon, Parker Palmer and Anita Barrows. 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. Limn: Exactly. Its the . 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. body. Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. [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. Limn: Yeah. [laughter] But I mean, Ive listened to every podcast shes done, so Im aware. 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. Perhaps Also because so much of whats been and again, its not just in the past, what has happened, has been happening below the level of consciousness in our bodies. Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Listen Download Transcript. She founded and leads the On Being Project ( www.onbeing.org )a groundbreaking media and public life . Page 40. cigarette smoke or expertise in recipes or, reading skills. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. And its page six of. Tippett: You see what I did? . by being not a witness, She is a former host of the poetry podcast. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. 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. 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. I was actually born at home. 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. The Adventure of Civility. On Being with Krista Tippett. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. Yeah. But I love it. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. Because there are a lot of unhelpful things that have been told to me. But when we talk about the limitations of language in general, I find language is so strange. Page 87. that thered be nothing left in you, like, until every part of it is run through with, days a little hazy with fever and waiting, for the water to stop shivering out of the. Its the thing that keeps us alive. And now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Sometimes its just staring out the window. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. , and its a villanelle, so its got a very strict rhyme scheme. Tippett: I think grief is something that is very We have so much to grieve even as we have so much to walk towards. Tippett: Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. The truth is, Ive never cared for the National So anyway, I got The Hurting Kind, the galley in the mail from Milkweed. We just ask questions. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. I really love . But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. and over against the ground, sometimes. You may also catch references to things seen and witnessed throughout the event including a stunning opening poem by our dear friend Maria Popova, composed of On Being show titles which you can take in fully by viewing the recorded celebration in its entirety on our YouTube channel. Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? Amidst all of the perspectives and arguments around our ecological future, this much is true: we are not in the natural world we are part of it. So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to Be Whole Nick just recorded. Thats page 95. 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. 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. and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, Limn: Oh, thank you. Every week, the show hosts thoughtful . So I want to do two more, also from The Carrying. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. 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. 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. You said a minute ago that the poetry has breath built into it, and you said also that, you have said: its meant to make us breathe. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Yeah, that was true. To be swallowed So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. 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. Also because so much of whats been and again, its not just in the past, what has happened, has been happening below the level of consciousness in our bodies. rolling their trash bins out, after all of this is over? Is it okay? The danger of all poets and I think artists in general, is it some moment we think we dont deserve to do this work because what does it do? And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. I live in the low parts now, most But its about more than that. Or theres just something happens and you get all of a sudden for it to come flooding back. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying. Find them at fetzer.org. 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. on all sides with want. Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned. Limn: Yeah. Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a much-loved show as her voice was just rising in common life. 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. And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. in the ground, under the feast up above. 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. And that is so much more present with us all the time. inward and the looking up, enough of the gun, the drama, and the acquaintances suicide, the long-lost, letter on the dresser, enough of the longing and, the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough, of the mother and the child and the father and the child, and enough of the pointing to the world, weary. Im like, Yes. 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. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. Each of us imprints the people in the world around us, breath to breath and hour to hour, as much in who we are and how we are present as in whatever we do. unpoisoned, the song thats our birthright. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. 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. And I think its in that category. The thesis is still the wind. The thesis is still a river. The thesis has never been exile., Yeah. Creativity. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. letter on the dresser, enough of the longing and And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1,000 people, packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. Yeah. Limn: That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. Too high for most of us with the rockets Free shipping for many products! But its about more than that. We touch each other. Tippett: several years later and a changed world later. The science of awe. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. Oh, definitely. And this particular poem was written after the 2017 fires in my home valley of Sonoma. 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. 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. And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. and I never knew survival Thats so wonderful. This is not a problem. I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy, and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis, of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god. 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? And its true. Weve come this far, survived this much. From the earliest years of his career, he investigated how emotions are coded in the muscles of our faces, and how they serve as moral sensory systems. He was called on as Emojis evolved; he consulted on Pete Docters groundbreaking movie Inside Out. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. Before the new apartment. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. Tacos. Because you did write a great essay called Taco Truck Saved my Marriage.. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam, And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? Our closing music was composed by Gautam Srikishan. No, question marks. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. Yeah. We want to meet what is hard and hurting. 1. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. 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. Yeah. 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 . And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. Her presence on that stage was electric. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called "Complicating the Narratives," which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. for the water to stop shivering out of the of age. Once it has been witnessed We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. 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. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. of the kneeling and the rising and the looking and what I do not say is: I trust the world to come back. [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 think its very dangerous not to have hope. Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., The thesis. to pick with whoever is in charge. There is also an ordinary and abundant unfolding of dignity and care and generosity, of social creativity and evolution and breakthrough. Tippett: Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. and the world. Limn: I do think I enjoy it. I get four parents that come to the school nights. And I felt like I was not brave enough to own that for myself. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, And shes animated by questions emerging from those loves and from the science she does which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. Tippett: I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. Limn: I think its definitely a writing prompt too, right? but witnessed. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. 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. enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. are your bones, and your bones are my bones. And then I would say in terms of the sacred, it was always the natural world. I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape. 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. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. Anthem. It is the world and the trees and the grasses and the birds looking back. And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. And what of the stanzas, we never sing, the third that mentions no refuge, could save the hireling and the slave? Interesting. And that was in shorter supply than one would think. What is the thesis word or the wind? Science and the Human Spirit. We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others.. Ive got a bone. I really love . No shoes and a glossy And I knew that at 15. [laughs] And its a very interesting thing to be a kid that goes back and forth, and Im sure many people have this experience or have had that experience, where youre moving from one home to another. Tippett: And we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. the nectar lovers, and we 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 . We value the ancient power of storytelling, and we get that good stories require conflict, characters and scene. 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. Join our constellation of listening and living. And I want you to read it. a certain light does a certain thing, enough I would say about 50 percent, maybe 60 percent of it was written during the pandemic. Yeah. Yeah. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. And the Lilly Endowment, an Indianapolis-based, private family foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, community development, and education. Tippett: To be made whole/ by being not a witness,/ but witnessed. Can you say a little bit about that? BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a profile today of Krista Tippett, the host of the weekly public radio conversation "Speaking of Faith," which won a Peabody Award this week. unpoisoned, the song thats our birthright, In me. 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. Its so interesting because I feel like one of the things as you age, as an artist, as a human being, you start to rethink the stories that people have told you and start to wonder what was useful and what was not useful. I think we all came a little bit more alive. We understand questions as technologies and virtues as social arts. Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. 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. And its funny to tell people that youre raised an atheist because theyre like, Really? But I was. Tippett: And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. In fact, Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful . Yeah. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. I feel like that between space, that liminal space, is a place where we were living for so long, and many of us still living in that between space of, How do I go into the world safely, and how do I move through the world with safety and care-take myself and care-take others. Where some of you were like, Eww, as soon as I said it. 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. 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.. 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. Before the dogs chain. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. So we have to do this another time. us, still right now, a softness like a worn fabric of a nightshirt, and what I do not say is: I trust the world to come back. could save the hireling and the slave? by being seen. Definitely. 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. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. Written and read by I would say about 50 percent, maybe 60 percent of it was written during the pandemic. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. 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? So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. now even when it is ordinary. The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. The On Being Project But something I started thinking, with this frame, really, this sense of homecoming and our belonging in the natural world runs all the way through every single one of your poems. Before the koi were all eaten Shes teaching me a lesson. Limn: Yeah. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. Patel is a Deseret contributor. No, really I was. 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. Many of us were having different experiences. Limn: I think its very dangerous not to have hope. 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 now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. This is science that invites us to nourish the brains we need, young and old, to live in this world. Its Spanish and English, and Im trying, and Ill look at him and be like, How much degrees is it?. I almost think that this poem could be used as a meditation. With. It suddenly just falls apart, and I feel like there are moments that I travel a lot in South America, with my husband, and by the end of the second week, my brain has gone. All right. with a new hosta under the main feeder. But I love it. SHARE 'It's a hard time in the life of the world' a conversation with Krista Tippett. I love it that youre already thinking that. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume, . the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left Limn: There was a bit of like, Eww, lover. [laughter], Easy light storms in through the window, soft I think I enjoy getting older. you look back and beg 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. In her Peabody-award winning public radio show and podcast, On Being, Krista Tippett provides a space for deep and meaningful conversations with profound thi. , the galley in the mail from Milkweed. 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