Kalliopeia Foundation. I really love . I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. Ive got a bone I could be both an I , and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. but I was loved each place. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. 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. I will say this poem began I was telling you how poems begin and sometimes with sounds, sometimes with images This was a sound of, you know when everyone rolls out their recycling at the same time. 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. by being not a witness, 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. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two Tippett: I love that. thats sung in silence when its too hard to go on, that sounds like someones rough fingers weaving, into anothers, that sounds like a match being lit, in an endless cave, the song that says my bones. 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. 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. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. But I love it. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. And I was feeling very isolated. It is still the river. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, . Join these two friends and interpreters of the human condition for . 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. I would say about 50 percent, maybe 60 percent of it was written during the pandemic. 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. But let me say, I was taken, back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy, but I was loved each place. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course. It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. The Pause. I think that there is a lot about trying to figure out who we are with ourselves. And I think its in that category. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. Kind of true. how the wind shakes a tree in a storm Two entirely different brains. in the ground, under the feast up above. 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. [audience laughs] But instead to really have this moment of, Oh, no, its our work together to see one another. So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. writes the word lover in a note and Im strangely, excited for the word lover to come back. 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. and over against the ground, sometimes. 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. Tippett: Look at all these people. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. 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. Exactly. And poetry doesnt really allow you to do that because its working in the smallest units of sound and syllable and clause and line break and then the sentence. On Being Studios's tracks [Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios In me, a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. Tippett: To be made whole/ by being not a witness,/ but witnessed. Can you say a little bit about that? In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. So Im hoping. 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. We keep forgetting about Antlia, Centaurus, and isnt that enough? Tippett: Thank you. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. Thats such a wonderful question. This is like a self-care poem. 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. 4.07 avg rating 5,187 ratings published 2016 20 editions. 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. We get curious, we interrogate, and we ask over and over again. The conversation of this hour always rises as an early experience that imprinted everything that came after at On Being. Theres how I dont answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend Im not home when people knock. Come back, And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. And it sounds like thunder? 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. Youre very young. And I want you to read it. Limn: I think its very dangerous not to have hope. Yeah. We think were divided by issues, arguing about conflicting facts. So well just be on an adventure together. And for us, it was Sundays. 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 we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. "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 . 10 distinct works Similar authors. And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our Foundations for Being Alive Now. It wasnt used as a tool. Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. Page 20. So its a very special place. no one has been writing the year lately. No, question marks. We value the ancient power of storytelling, and we get that good stories require conflict, characters and scene. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. The one that always misses where Im not, I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high. 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. I also think aging is underrated. tags: curiosity , listening , oral-history , vulnerability. no hot gates, no house decayed. 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.. Copyright 2023. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. so mute its almost in another year. I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape. And its page six of. some new constellations. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. During her 20-plus years as host of public radio's "On Being" show which aired on some 400 stations across the country Krista Tippett and her beautifully varied slate of guests . And I think about that all the time. We were brought together in a collaboration between Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Milkweed Editions. 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?. We are in the final weeks as On Being evolves to its next chapter in a world that is evolving, each of us changed in myriad ways weve only begun to process and fathom. On Being with Krista Tippett. Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. For her voice of insistent honesty and wholeness and wisdom and joyfulness. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. Helping to build a more just, equitable and connected America one creative act at a time. 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. We are in the final weeks as On Being evolves to its next chapter in a world that is evolving, each of us changed in myriad ways weve only begun to process and fathom. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. And I am so thrilled to have this conversation with Ada Limn to be part of our first season. And I knew that at 15. Or, Im suffering, or Right. And I would just have these whole moments when people would be like, Oh, and then well meet in person. And I was like, , I dont want you to witness my body. I could. For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. Join our constellation of listening and living. beneath us, and I was just Krista Tippett. And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. And for a long time Sundays kind of unsettled me, even as an adult. @KristaTippett is the host of @OnBeing podcast and a NYTimes bestselling author. We hold each other. But we dont need to belabor that. Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. That its not my neighborhood, and they look beautiful. Its still the elements. Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista 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. should write, huge and round and awful. Yet what Amanda has gone on to investigate and so, so helpfully illuminate is not just about journalism, or about politics. They are honoring and recovering the fullness of the human experience the life of the mind, the truth of the body, the wild mystery of the spirit, and our need for each other. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. Limn: And I love it, but I think that you go to it, as a poet, in an awareness of not only its limitations and its failures, but also very curious about where you can push it in order to make it into a new thing. The thesis has never been exile. So my interest, when I get into conversation with a poet, is not to talk about poetry, but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. And it was just me, the dog, and the cat, and the trees. are your bones, and your bones are my bones. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. its like staring into an original And one of them this is also on The Hurting Kind is Lover, which is page 77. I feel like the short poem, maybe read that one, the After the Fire poem is such a wonderful example of so much of what weve been talking about, how poetry can speak to something that is impossible to speak about. Amanda Ripley began her life as a journalist covering crime, disaster, and terrorism. 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. We have never been exiled. A friend Tippett: Thats so wonderful. Find them at fetzer.org. Its the thing that keeps us alive. So my interest, when I get into conversation with a poet, is not to talk, poetry, but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us. And so I think my investigation or my curiosity is not so much talking about poetry, but about where poetry comes from in us and what poetry works in us. 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 also, I read somewhere that Sundays were a day that you were moving back and forth between your two homes, your parents divorced and everybody remarried. Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels, We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out. To be made whole Henno Road, creek just below, and then, Oh, Im stressed. Oh, if you want to know about stress, let me tell you, Im stressed., I like to tell my friends when they say theyre really stressed, Ill be like, Oh, I took the most wonderful nap. Musings and tools to take into your week. 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. Tippett: Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. And so I think my investigation or my curiosity is not so much talking about poetry, but about where poetry comes from in us and what poetry works in us. I trust those moments where it feels like, Oh, right, this is a weird. Language is strange, and its evolving. If you think about it, its not a good Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. 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. The truth is, Ive never cared for the National, Anthem. 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 poetry is absolutely this is not something I knew would happen when I started this but poetry now is at the heart of. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. 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. And so thats really a lot of how I was raised. When you open the page, theres already silence. Starting Thursday, February 2: three months of soaring new On Being conversations, with an eye towards emergence. Talk about any of the limits of language, the failure of language. if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big of age. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. 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. The Adventure of Civility. 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. Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. I am asking you to touch me. Two families, two different And now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Its the thing that keeps us alive. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. Can you locate that? And I always thought it was just because I had to work. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. Yeah. We just ask questions. Yeah. Or theres just something happens and you get all of a sudden for it to come flooding back. , and its a villanelle, so its got a very strict rhyme scheme. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. So we have to do this another time. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award. And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume, . the collar, constriction of living. Limn: Yeah. I love it that youre already thinking that. Interesting. The truth is, Ive never cared for the National Tippett: I do feel like you were one of the people who was really writing with care and precision and curiosity about what we were going through. And I think about that all the time. Because I was teaching on Zoom, and I was just a face, and I found myself being very comfortable with just being a face, and with just being a head. Oh, thank you. Tippett: And this is about your childhood, right? 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. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, The Hurting Kind. 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. 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. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. All right. I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. 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. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. So, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened World.. 25 Sep. 2014. about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. 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. 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. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. 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. I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, Yeah. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. Tippett: 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. I really love . Easy light storms in through the window, soft, edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels, nest rigged high in the maple. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. 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. The Osprey Foundation a catalyst for empowered, healthy, and fulfilled lives. They bring us together with others, again and again. that thered be nothing left in you, like People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. are your bones, and your bones are my bones, Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called Complicating the Narratives, which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. And now Tippett has done it again. . Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg 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. And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. From Feb 2: three months of soaring conversations to live and grow with with an eye towards emergence. 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." You will hear the voices of wise and graceful lives of former guests, and of listeners from far-flung places. I think thats very true. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. Tippett: I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. A student of change and of how groups change together. that sounds like someones rough fingers weaving God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. Yeah. Im so excited for your tenure representing poetry and representing all of us, and Im excited that you have so many more years of aging and writing and getting wiser ahead, and we got to be here at this early stage. And 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. Limn: I do think I enjoy it. Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. I just saw her. 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. The great eye. 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. Limn: I love it. 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. Nov 28, 2022. I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. Alice Parker Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts. Yeah. Limn: I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. Theres also how I stand in the field across from the street, thats another way because Im farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. On Being with Krista Tippett | 5 minute podcast summaries on Apple . Thats how this machine works. We offer it here as an audio experience, and we think you will enjoy being in . And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Im like, Yes. Yeah. Tippett: So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. Tippett: I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). 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