So, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened World.. The Adventure of Civility. But I love it. Tippett: Something that you reflect on a lot that I would love to just draw you out on a bit is I think people who love language the most, and work with language, also are most intensely aware of the limits of language, and thats partly why youre working so hard. 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. I think thats very true. Page 20. And its true. I think there were these moments that that quietness, that aloneness, that solitude, that as hard as they were, I think hopefully weve learned some lessons from that. Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. the nectar lovers, and we Exactly. Learn more at. body. 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. Alice Parker is a wise and joyful thinker and writer on this truth, and has been a hero in the universe of choral music as a composer . And you also wrote about that, and you also wrote this essay. Yeah. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. Only my head is for you. 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. And what of the stanzas, we never sing, the third that mentions no refuge, could save the hireling and the slave? Shes teaching me a lesson. Talk about any of the limits of language, the failure of language. 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. rough wind, chicken legs, I just saw her. a breaking open, a breaking You should take a nap. [laughter] I know its cruel. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. It wasnt used as a tool. like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung to pick with whoever is in charge. 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. How are you?. On her show she promoted her new book, Einstein's God, and if the show is any indication, this new enterprise promises to be a fun fest for people inclined . And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? And then you can also be like, Im a little anxious about this thing thats happening next week. Or all of these things, it makes room for all of those things. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. April 4, 2008. Limn: [laughs] Yeah. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. And I feel like the thing that always kept coming back to me, especially in the early days was, What does it do? Well right now it anchors you to the world again and again and again. The Hearthland Foundation. Then three years later, Tippett left American Public Media to create her own production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which has aligned with WNYC/New York Public Radio to distribute the show to affiliates nationwide. He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. And it often falls apart from me. And one of them this is also on The Hurting Kind is Lover, which is page 77. And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. 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. Thats such a wonderful question. On Being Studios's tracks [Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. Thats such a wonderful question. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista. That is real but its not the whole story of us. Thats page 95. I almost think that this poem could be used as a meditation. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Where some of you were like, Eww, as soon as I said it. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? And this is about your childhood, right? (Unedited) The Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Krista Tippett. We honor poets and poetry as necessary companions in mustering words spacious and generous enough to reach across the mystery of ourselves and the mystery of each other. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. You should take a nap.. 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. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. 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. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. No, question marks. 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 together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. even the tenacious high school band off key. now even when it is ordinary. 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. 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. Limn: Kind of true. Before the apple tree. Its the thing that keeps us alive. into anothers green skin, In fact, Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful . Limn: There was a bit of like, Eww, lover. [laughter], Easy light storms in through the window, soft I never go there very much anymore. Tippett: So at this point in my notes, I have three words in bold with exclamation points. Or call 1-800-MY-APPLE. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. And place is always place. On Being with Krista Tippett On Being Studios Society & Culture 4.6 9.1K Ratings; A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. 10 distinct works Similar authors. for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam. And I think it was that. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, The Hurting Kind. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. Definitely. It sends us back to work with the raw materials of our lives, understanding that these are always the materials even of change at a cosmic or a societal level. 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. I never go there very much anymore. Page 40. So its actually about fostering yourself in the sun, in the right place, creating the right habitat. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zo Keating. And were you writing The Hurting Kind during the pandemic and lockdown? The wonder of biomimicry. [Laughter] I feel like I could hear that response, right? So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. And its funny to tell people that youre raised an atheist because theyre like, Really? But I was. about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. It began as "Speaking of Faith" in July 2003, and was renamed On Being in 2010. Tippett: The thesis. And we think, Well, what are we supposed to do with that silence? And we read naturally for meaning. Maybe that speaks for itself. And it was this moment of like, Oh, this is abundance. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. Yeah. Page 87. She is a former host of the poetry podcast. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. Becoming whole, she teaches, is not about eradicating our wounds and weaknesses; rather, the way we deal with losses, large and small, shapes our capacity to be present to all of our experiences. what a word, what a world, this gray waiting. I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, is so bright and determined like a flame, 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. Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. She loves human beings. I think there are things we all learned also. Talk about any of the limits of language, the failure of language. It comes back to these questions of like, Why do I get to be lucky in this way? Its still the elements. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. If you live, Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. I cannot reverse it, the record Kind of true. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., At the top of the mountain hoping our team wins. snaking underneath us as we absentmindly sing 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. We prioritize busyness. but witnessed. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). 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? 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 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. [laughter] But I mean, Ive listened to every podcast shes done, so Im aware. Limn: Yeah. capture, capture, capture. is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. And so I gave up on it. Each of us imprints the people in the world around us . I think its very dangerous not to have hope. We speak the language of questions. enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough 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. Supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. Alex Cochran, Deseret News. We endeavor to make goodness and complexity riveting. 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. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, Tippett: In The Hurting Kind. Yeah. 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. We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright. beneath us, and I was just Thats the work of poetry in general, right? Limn: I love it. Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. And then thats also the space for us to sort of walk in as a reader being like, Whats happening here? Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. Special thanks this week to Daniel Slager, Yanna Demkiewicz, and Katie Hill at Milkweed Editions. 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. I love it that youre already thinking that. You will hear the voices of wise and graceful lives of former guests, and of listeners from far-flung places. with a new hosta under the main feeder. to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels Why that color? of age. Limn: I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. And then it hits you or something you, like you touch a doorknob, and it reminds you of your mothers doorknob. Can you locate that? Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. 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. And so its giving room to have those failures be a breaking open and for someone else to stand in it and bring whatever they want to it. I have a lot of poems that basically are that. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. A friend Im learning so many different ways to be quiet. Yeah. And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. So would you read, its called Before, page 46. a certain light does a certain thing, enough 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. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. But its true. And for us, it was Sundays. 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. We havent read much from, , which is a wonderful book. I could be both an I So the poem you wrote, Joint Custody. You get asked to read it. It unfolded at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, in collaboration with Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Ada Limns publisher, Milkweed Editions. Musings and tools to take into your week. I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. We journalists, she wrote, "can summon outrage in five words or bliss before you know of the kneeling and the rising and the looking Yeah. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. But mostly were forgetting were dead stars too, my mouth is full inward and the looking up, enough of the gun, We read for sense. And also Im so happy to be together with you in the old-fashioned flesh, which we no longer take for granted. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. And that is so much more present with us all the time. So I want to do two more, also from The Carrying. 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 then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. Come back, An accomplished journalist, author, and entrepreneur, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2014. Yeah. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. And that feels like its an active thing as opposed to a finished thing, a closed thing. 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. I feel like it brings us back to wholeness somehow. The caesura and the line breaks, its breath. And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. so mute its almost in another year. And its page six of. a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. 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. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. 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 he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. We want to rise to what is beautiful and life-giving. And what of the stanzas She is a former host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. Once it has been witnessed Tacos. Because you did write a great essay called Taco Truck Saved my Marriage.. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. Actually, thats in. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. But I think theres so much in this poem thats about that idea that the thesis thats returned to the river. love it again, until the song in your mouth feels Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zo Keating. I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. Tippett: Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. And together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. Tippett: A lot of them are in the On Being studio, they come in the mail. and then, And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, The Hurting Kind. I love it that youre already thinking that. Because there are a lot of unhelpful things that have been told to me. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. Henno Road, creek just below, Lean Spirituality. What were talking about and not when we talk about mental health. But we dont need to belabor that. 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. song. Youre very young. 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. Before the dogs chain. Dont get me wrong, I do 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. 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. not forgetting and star bodies and frozen birds, Youll see why in a minute. And so I have Where being at ease is not okay. 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. Yeah. Its got breath, its got all those spaces. Im Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. I spoke with Ada Limn at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis. In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. The bright side is not talked about. Funny thing about grief, its hold Two families, two different by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. And for a long time Sundays kind of unsettled me, even as an adult. And were you writing. And I was feeling very isolated. Yeah. Many of us were having different experiences. But its about more than that. 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. Musings and tools to take into your week. 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. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. What if we stood up with our synapses and flesh and said. Yeah. Limn: Yeah. We can forget this. We havent read much from The Carrying, which is a wonderful book. Youre very young. I have your books, and theres some, too. 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. , 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 so thats really a lot of how I was raised. Now, somethings, breaking always on the skyline, falling over 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. 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.. 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. The bright side is not talked about. 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.. All of this, as Dacher sees it now, led him deeper and deeper into investigating the primary experience of awe in human life moments when we have a sense of wonder, an experience of mystery, that transcends our understanding. Every week: practices and goodies to accompany your listen. unnoticed, sometimes covered up like sorrow, Because how do we care for one another? Listen Download Transcript. And the Lilly Endowment, an Indianapolis-based, private family foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, community development, and education. 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]. 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? 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. Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. has lost everything, when its not a weapon, when it flickers, when it folds up so perfectly, you can keep it until its needed, until you can, love it again, until the song in your mouth feels, like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung. 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. There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies that Kimberley Wilson takes us on this hour. The world around us unsettled me, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened world ] Easy. 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