But I want you to read it second, because what I found in Bright Dead Things, 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. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. In between my tasks, I find a dead fledgling, 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. Centuries of pleasure before us and after. Its Spanish and English, and Im trying, and Ill look at him and be like, How much degrees is it?. And its funny to tell people that youre raised an atheist because theyre like, Really? But I was. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerers Braiding Sweetgrass. I think thats very true. The one that always misses where Im not, 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. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. lover, come back to the five-and-dime. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Limn: Yeah. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine.. 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. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. No, really I was. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. We touch each other. 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]. In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. I almost think that this poem could be used as a meditation. Unknown. 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. , and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. 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. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. 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 . So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. Tippett: So can we just engage in this intellectual exercise with you because its completely fascinating and Im not sure whats going on, and Id like you to tell me. Because how do we care for one another? He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. All right. Tippett: It also says something about this time. Every week: practices and goodies to accompany your listen. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. It wasnt used as a tool. 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. Ada Limn. Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. a certain light does a certain thing, enough So it had this kind of wonderful way of existing in an aliveness of a language, aliveness of a second language as opposed to just sort of a need to get something or to use. Theres a lot of different People. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. Theres whole books about how to breathe. Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. And the Q has the tail of a monkey, and weve forgotten this. This definitely speaks to that. are your bones, and your bones are my bones, And also that notion and these are other things you said that poetry recognizes our wholeness. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright. They bring our nervous system and heartbeat and breath into sync and even into sync with other bodies around us. I think we all came a little bit more alive. Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. 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. I have people who ask me, How do you write poems? And you talk about process. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. An electric conversation with Ada Limns 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. Before the dogs chain. Oh my. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. 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., And I always think about that because of course, its so ironic that we have to think about our breath. And just as there are callings for a life, there are callings for our time. I think its very dangerous not to have hope. Lean Spirituality. What were talking about and not when we talk about mental health. This is like a self-care poem. And the Lilly Endowment, an Indianapolis-based, private family foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, community development, and education. Yeah, it was completely unnatural. Thats page 95. And that feels like its an active thing as opposed to a finished thing, a closed thing. 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 mean, thats how we read. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. Limn: Yeah. Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. And were you writing. We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. (Unedited) The Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Krista Tippett. And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. And also Im so happy to be together with you in the old-fashioned flesh, which we no longer take for granted. We get curious, we interrogate, and we ask over and over again. Tippett: And that is so much more present with us all the time. But I do think youre a bit of a So the thing is, we have this phrase, old and wise. But the truth is that a lot of people just grow old, it doesnt necessarily come with it. And I found it really useful, a really useful tool to go back in and start to think about what was just no longer true, or maybe had never been true. 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 now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. On Being with Krista Tippett. 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. Tippett: So the poem you wrote, Joint Custody. You get asked to read it. Okay. like water, elemental, and best when its humbled, Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. And one of them this is also on The Hurting Kind is Lover, which is page 77. We want to rise to what is beautiful and life-giving. Yeah. Tippett: So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. What a time to be alive, adrienne maree brown has written. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing. [laughs]. Page 20. 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. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. And I think there was this moment where I was like, Oh, Im just sort of living to see what happens next. And the grief is also giving me a reason to get up. And so I have. Thats how this machine works. 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? 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. recycling bin until you say, Man, we should really learn A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. is so bright and determined like a flame, We read for sense. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, . And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. 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. Yeah. What was it? Limn: Yeah. In fact, Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful . 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 theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. What would happen if we used our bodies to bargain. In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. We want to orient towards that possibility. And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. You will hear the voices of wise and graceful lives of former guests, and of listeners from far-flung places. It wasnt functional in a way. But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. And for us, it was Sundays. Silence, which we dont get enough of. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. Renamed On Being with Krista Tippett, the show was broadcast on more than 400 stations nationwide and, as a podcast, was regularly downloaded millions of times a month. We offer it here as an audio experience, and we think you will enjoy being in the room retroactively. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Theres daytime silent when I stare, and nighttime silent when I do things. if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big Youre never like, Oh, Im just done grieving. I mean, you can pretend you are, right, but we arent. No, question marks. So I feel like the last one Id like for you to read for us is A New National Anthem, which you read at your inauguration as Poet Laureate. Interesting. we never sing, the third that mentions no refuge It is still the river. the ground and the feast is where I live now. When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. Weve come this far, survived this much. And its true. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, Tippett: In The Hurting Kind. Tippett: I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. Nothing, nothing is funny. Limn: I think its definitely a writing prompt too, right? Talk about any of the limits of language, the failure of language. And so I gave up on it. Yeah. 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. On Being with Krista Tippett | 5 minute podcast summaries on Apple . And for a long time Sundays kind of unsettled me, even as an adult. 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. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. Actually, thats in Bright Dead Things. wind? And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. rolling their trash bins out, after all of this is over? squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover. Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. Two entirely different brains. When you open the page, theres already silence. The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, 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. 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. Krista Tippett is the creator and host of the On Being and Becoming Wise podcasts as well as curator of The Civil Conversations Project. Before the new apartment. And I think about that all the time. Before the divorce. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. This is a gift. And that reframing was really important to me. what you would miss. And Im sure it does for many of you, where you start to think about a phrase or a word comes to you and youre like, Is that a word? Youre like, With. And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. Want to Read. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama . We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others.. So we have to do this another time. Funny thing about grief, its hold The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. Limn: Yeah. Krista Tippett. 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. And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. I mean, thats how we read. 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. 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. like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung into anothers green skin, I just saw her. I cannot reverse it, the record and I never knew survival you can keep it until its needed, until you can And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. Maybe that speaks for itself. a finalist for the National Book Award. And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. Bottlebrush trees attract And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. @KristaTippett is the host of @OnBeing podcast and a NYTimes bestselling author. And that was in shorter supply than one would think. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. and over against the ground, sometimes. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call Come back, Definitely. 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. [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: Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body Its the thing that keeps us alive. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? Limn: Yeah. I love it that youre already thinking that. Limn: Oh, thank you. I love that you do this. Its the . Im really longing I realized as I was preparing for this, Im just Of course, I read poetry, I read a lot of poetry in these last years, but I realized Im craving hearing poetry. So its a very special place. the date at the top of a letter; though Once, I sang it at homecoming and threw And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? Like, Oh, take a deep breath. Then we get annoyed when it works, too. [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. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. And coming in future weeks, is a conversation with a technologist and artist named James Bridle, whose point is that language itself, the sounds we made and the words we finally formed, and the imagery and the metaphors were all primally, organically rooted in the natural world of which we were part. We value the ancient power of storytelling, and we get that good stories require conflict, characters and scene. Limn: Yeah. The thesis is still the wind. The thesis is still a river. The thesis has never been exile., Limn: Yeah. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? Tippett: Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. Tippett: 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. Limn: Kind of true. the collar, constriction of living. the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands Draco, Lacerta, Hydra, Lyra, Lynx. 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. 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. So well just be on an adventure together. So you get to have this experience with language that feels somewhat disjointed, and in that way almost feels like, Oh, this makes more sense as the language for our human experience than, lets say, a news report.. of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god Harley at seven years old. Kalliopeia Foundation. Limn: Exactly. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. Peabody Award-winning host Krista Tippett presents a live, in-person recording of the wildly popular On Being podcast, featuring guest speaker Isabel Wilkerson. back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy Theres whole books about how to breathe. Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. 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. And its page six of. Tippett: The thesis. 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. It is still the wind. Musings and tools to take into your week. So it had this kind of wonderful way of existing in an aliveness of a language, aliveness of a second language as opposed to just sort of a need to get something or to use. Or theres just something happens and you get all of a sudden for it to come flooding back. To love harder? beneath us, and I was just Why that color? Limn: Yeah. a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. 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: You see what I did? Alex Cochran, Deseret News. 25 Sep. 2014. July 4, 2022 9:00 am. Tippett: this is how vitality looks like. Like, Oh, take a deep breath. Then we get annoyed when it works, too. I spoke with Ada Limn at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis. On Being with Krista Tippett is about focusing on the immensity of our lives. [audience laughs] But instead to really have this moment of, Oh, no, its our work together to see one another. Yeah. 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. Its the , Limn: We literally. Limn: There was a bit of like, Eww, lover. [laughter], Easy light storms in through the window, soft now even when it is ordinary. She loves the ocean. Nov 28, 2022. And I was feeling very isolated. And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? 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. 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. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified, if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word. And that was in shorter supply than one would think. She loves human beings. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. What follows is the transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Andrew Solomon, Parker Palmer and Anita Barrows. Patel is a Deseret contributor. and isnt that enough? And it was just me, the dog, and the cat, and the trees. But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. Limn: And hes like, Are you trying to ask me what the weather is? [laughter] Im like, Yes. We journalists, she wrote, can summon outrage in five words or less. 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. Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. 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.". And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? I love it that youre already thinking that. Yeah. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. You ever think you could cry so hard So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to Be Whole Nick just recorded. and gloss. We nurture virtues that build muscle memory towards sustained new realities including generous listening, embodied presence, and transformative relationship across backgrounds and lived experience. Tippett: So I feel like the last one Id like for you to read for us is A New National Anthem, which you read at your inauguration as Poet Laureate. like something almost worth living for. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. This hour, Krista draws out her creative and pragmatic inquiry: Could we let ourselves be led by what we already know how to do, and by what we have it in us to save? And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. the pummeling of youth. 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. of the mother and the child and the father and the child And now Tippett has done it again. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? Page 40. On Being, which began on public radio, has been named a best podcast by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio with more than 400 million downloads. And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. Tippett: And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. 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. 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 to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. Krista Tippett (ne Weedman; born November 9, 1960) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. 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 then what happened was the list that was in my head of poems I wasnt going to write became this poem. I will trust the world and I will feel at peace. And this time, what came to me as I stood and looked at the trees was that Oh, it isnt just me looking. Can you locate that? I think its definitely a writing prompt too, right? And it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. Limn: Yeah. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., The thesis. the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left I feel like I could hear that response, right? Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. Its got breath, its got all those spaces. 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. 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