11 March 2023

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and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough. When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. 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. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. Limn: And hes like, Are you trying to ask me what the weather is? [laughter] Im like, Yes. Henno Road, creek just below, The truth is, Ive never cared for the National, Anthem. And it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. What is the thesis word or the wind? The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. 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. 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. And then thats also the space for us to sort of walk in as a reader being like, Whats happening here? 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. This is a moving and edifying conversation that is also, not surprisingly, a lot of fun. And it sounds like thunder? And then I would say in terms of the sacred, it was always the natural world. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. 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. Mosaque Liste Walking in Wonder Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World - ebook (ePub) John Quinn . We hold each other. a breaking open, a breaking But I mean, Ive listened to every podcast shes done, so Im aware. 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 I feel like theres a level of mystery thats allowed in the poem that feels like, Okay, I can maybe read this into it, I can put myself into it, and it becomes sort of its own thing. Limn: Yeah. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. These, it turns out, are as common in human life globally as they are measurably health-giving and immunity-boosting. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., At the top of the mountain If you think about it, its not a good What was it? Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? 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 . Yes I am. But I trust those moments. April 4, 2008. 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. Discoveries about the gut microbiome, for example, and the gut-brain axis; the fascinating vagus nerve and the power of the neurotransmitters we hear about in piecemeal ways in discussions around mental health. Limn: Yeah. We can forget this. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. From Feb 2: three months of soaring conversations to live and grow with with an eye towards emergence. I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. 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. And here was something that was so well crafted and people to this day will say its one of the most expert villanelles ever written its so well crafted, and yet it doesnt actually offer any answers. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. Limn: Yeah. Something I remember reading is that you grew up in an English-speaking household, but your paternal grandfather spoke Spanish and that you just loved to listen to him. We havent read much from The Carrying, which is a wonderful book. of age. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. , 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. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. 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. a finalist for the National Book Award. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified, if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big. 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. 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. And so much of what were seeing brings us back to intelligence that has always been in the very words we use gut instinct, for instance. I cannot reverse it, the record, chaotic track. The wonder of biomimicry. 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 just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Yeah, that was true. Bottlebrush trees attract Yeah. 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. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. I trust those moments where it feels like, Oh, right, this is a weird. Language is strange, and its evolving. 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? Tippett: Yeah. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. Thats such a wonderful question. July 4, 2022 9:00 am. 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. I never go there very much anymore. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. bury yourself in leaves, and wait for a breaking, Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a much-loved show as her voice was just rising in common life. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright. Who am I to live? Right? Tippett: 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 [laughter]. But he is driven by passionate callings older and deeper than his public vocation as an actor and comedian. 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. 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. Kalliopeia Foundation. Tune in now. We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. 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. Yet whats most stunning is how presciently and exquisitely Ocean spoke, and continues to speak, to the world we have since come to inhabit its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life. I could. Two entirely different brains. So anyway, I got The Hurting Kind, the galley in the mail from Milkweed. I love it that youre already thinking that. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. Thats how this machine works. when it flickers, when it folds up so perfectly Yeah. and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our Foundations for Being Alive Now. Yeah. Limn: There was a bit of like, Eww, lover. [laughter], Easy light storms in through the window, soft Tippett: Because I couldnt decide which ones I wanted you to read. I was actually born at home. 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. Theres how I stand in the lawn, thats one way. into an expansion, a heat. Its still the elements. 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. These full-body experiences of isolation and ungrieved losses and loneliness and fear and uncertainty. In fact, Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful . A friend And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? Krista Tippett (2) Rsultats tris par. It comes back to these questions of like, Why do I get to be lucky in this way? It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. 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. That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. Musings and tools to take into your week. Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. It is the world and the trees and the grasses and the birds looking back. 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. Tippett: I feel like it brings us back to wholeness somehow. 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 sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. On Being with Krista Tippett | 5 minute podcast summaries on Apple . Good, good. What, she asks, if we get this right? 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. are your bones, and your bones are my bones. 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. So well just be on an adventure together. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. could save the hireling and the slave? Tippett: And this is about your childhood, right? One of the most fascinating developments of our time is that human qualities we have understood in terms of virtue experiences weve called spiritual are now being taken seriously by science as intelligence as elements of human wholeness. If you are here, you are likely already part of this. 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. I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. 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. . Poems all come to me differently. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. I love it that youre already thinking that. I dont even mourn him, just all matter-of-. And I was feeling very isolated. [audience laughs] But instead to really have this moment of, Oh, no, its our work together to see one another. Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower. I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. 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. I write. [laughs] Oh my. 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. in the ground, under the feast up above. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others.. And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. by the crane. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being . Its got breath, its got all those spaces. bliss before you know And I think about that all the time. And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. the nectar lovers, and we Theres whole books about how to breathe. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. Before the ceramics in the garbage. And then I would say in terms of the sacred, it was always the natural world. Stood for the many mute mouths of the sea, of the land? As . A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. 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. abundance? Before the apple tree. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. 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?. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zo Keating. And this particular poem was written after the 2017 fires in my home valley of Sonoma. [laughs]. [laughter] But I mean, Ive listened to every podcast shes done, so Im aware. But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. wind? Thats page 95. Yeah. And were you writing The Hurting Kind during the pandemic and lockdown? 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 Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. And that is so much more present with us all the time. Tippett: And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. And for us, it was Sundays. Centuries of pleasure before us and after Limn: Yeah. Tippett: And I also just wondered if that experience of loving sound and the cadence of this language that was yours and not yours, if that also flowed into this love of poetry. and enough of the pointing to the world, weary Yes I am. But I trust those moments. and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. Yeah. Every week: practices and goodies to accompany your listen. And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. The thesis is still the wind. The thesis is still a river. The thesis has never been exile., Yeah. Before the road The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. But when we talk about the limitations of language in general, I find language is so strange. The Hearthland Foundation. but witnessed. Yeah. some new constellations. the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough Lean Spirituality. What were talking about and not when we talk about mental health. Yet whats most stunning is how presciently and exquisitely Ocean spoke, and continues to speak, to the world we have since come to inhabit its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life. the truth is every song of this country and what I do not say is: I trust the world to come back. 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? Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. We believe healthy spiritual inquiry propels us outside the boundaries of the self, into the world. Page 20. 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.. Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project. thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant. Yeah. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. I think there was also he also was a singer, so he would just sing. 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 . Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? two brains now. 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.". Where some of you were like, Eww, as soon as I said it. We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. What Amanda has been gathering by way of answers to that question is an extraordinary gift to us all. I just saw her. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. 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