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. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? And for us, it was Sundays. But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. I also think aging is underrated. But time is more spacious than we imagine it to be, and it is more of a friend than we always know. [laughter] I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. nest rigged high in the maple. I almost think that this poem could be used as a meditation. I have people who ask me, How do you write poems? And you talk about process. 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. SHARE. Tippett: Maybe that speaks for itself. and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary Limn: Yeah. Just back to this idea that there is this organic automatically breathing thing of which were part, and that we even have to rediscover that. Starting Thursday, February 2: three months of soaring new On Being conversations, with an eye towards emergence. But mostly were forgetting were dead stars too, my mouth is full It just offers more questions. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: We're increasingly attentive, in our culture, to the many faces of depression and its cousin, anxiety, and we're fluent in the languages of psychology and medication.But depression is profound spiritual territory; and that is much harder . I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. A dream. has an unsung third stanza, something brutal 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. There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies that Kimberley Wilson takes us on this hour. What is the thesis word or the wind? 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. I really love . I could. 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. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? 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 when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course. And then I kept thinking, What are the other things I can do that with? [laughter] Because there are a lot of unhelpful things that have been told to me. Limn: Yeah. Musings and tools to take into your week. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. You said there in a place, as Ive aged, I have more time for tenderness, for the poems that are so earnest they melt your spine a little. 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. Good conflict. Technology and vitality. We inhabit a liminal time between what we thought we knew and what we cant quite yet see. Do you remember the Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert was doing the earlier show, and he had this one skit where he said, I love breathing, I could do it all day long. [laughter] And I always think about that because of course, its so ironic that we have to think about our breath. Yeah. This conversational nature of reality indeed, this drama of vitality is something we have all been shown, willing or unwilling, in these years. I have decided that Im here in this world to be moved by love and [to] let myself be moved by beauty. Which is such a wonderful mission statement. And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our Foundations for Being Alive Now. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. 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. And so thats really a lot of how I was raised. [Music: Molerider by Blue Dot Sessions]. This definitely speaks to that. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy Tippett: Its that Buddhist, the finger pointing at the moon, right? Oh, thank you. has lost everything, when its not a weapon, Krista Tippett is the author of Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living and the host of the national public radio show and podcast On Being. 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. Look, we are not unspectacular things. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two [audience laughs] But instead to really have this moment of, Oh, no, its our work together to see one another. You should take a nap.. Limn: There was a bit of like, Eww, lover. [laughter], Easy light storms in through the window, soft Who am I to live? Right? Limn: I do think I enjoy it. Easy light storms in through the window, soft, edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels, nest rigged high in the maple. 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. Copyright 2023. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. Yes. Thats so wonderful. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. I love it. 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 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. Before the road And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course, The On Being Project Shes teaching me a lesson. I love that you do this. This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. 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 sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. 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. 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. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. Learn more at. We live the questions. love it again, until the song in your mouth feels 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. Draco, Lacerta, Hydra, Lyra, Lynx. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. And now Tippett has done it again. And so I have. 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. . Its almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue. Page 20. Krista Tippett, host of award-winning NPR program "On Being", and poet David Whyte discusses several of the life-sized concepts addressed in Tippet's book, _. You said there in a place, as Ive aged, I have more time for tenderness, for the poems that are so earnest they melt your spine a little. I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. How are you?. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. The Osprey Foundation a catalyst for empowered, healthy, and fulfilled lives. Limn: Yes. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. Tippett: And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. Amanda Ripley began her life as a journalist covering crime, disaster, and terrorism. unnoticed, sometimes covered up like sorrow, Image by Danyang Ma, All Rights Reserved. And I hope, I dont think anybody here will mind. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. Its the . This definitely speaks to that. Limn: Exactly. To love harder? Limn: [laughs] Yeah. 25 Sep. 2014. Every week: practices and goodies to accompany your listen. 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. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. 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. [laughs] And I think Id just like to end with a few more poems. BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a profile today of Krista Tippett, the host of the weekly public radio conversation "Speaking of Faith," which won a Peabody Award this week. I cannot reverse it, the record 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. [laughs] Oh my. Henno Road, creek just below, are your bones, and your bones are my bones, [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. We elevate voices of wisdom and models of wise thinking, speaking, and living. We have been in the sun. bury yourself in leaves, and wait for a breaking, fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. She loves human beings. like water, elemental, and best when its humbled, And it often falls apart from me. A student of change and of how groups change together. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. I love that you do this. And I hope, I dont think anybody here will mind. with a new hosta under the main feeder. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, . This is not a problem. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. Before the apple tree. Its the , Limn: We literally. And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. Like, Oh, take a deep breath. Then we get annoyed when it works, too. Harley at seven years old. But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. On Being with Krista Tippett is about focusing on the immensity of our lives. And for a long time Sundays kind of unsettled me, even as an adult. 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. On Being with Krista Tippett. And its true. Limn: 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. Youre very young. and enough of the pointing to the world, weary So Im hoping. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. 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: Yeah. Exit Limn: Kind of true. song. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. As . We speak the language of questions. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. 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. Limn: I love it. Tippett: Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. Yet her lifelong struggle with Crohns Disease and her pioneering work with cancer patients shaped her view of life. Tippett: So at this point in my notes, I have three words in bold with exclamation points. Poems all come to me differently. cigarette smoke or expertise in recipes or Interesting. Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. 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. And I always thought it was just because I had to work. lover, come back to the five-and-dime. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. into anothers green skin, And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. We offer it here as an audio experience, and we think you will enjoy being in the room retroactively. The truth is, Ive never cared for the National, Anthem. 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. Tippett: And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified. If you live, I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? I have people who ask me, How do you write poems? And you talk about process. Cracking time open, seeing its true manifold nature, expands a sense of the possible in the here and the now. Limn: It is still the wind. And I think about that all the time. Musings and tools to take into your week. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Limn: Yeah, that was true. I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying. Tippett: But we dont need to belabor that. Oh, definitely. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. Yeah. It is still the river. But when we talk about the limitations of language in general, I find language is so strange. 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. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Come back, Precisely at a moment like this, of vast aching open questions and very few answers we can agree on, our questions themselves become powerful tools for living and growing. Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned. Its repeating words. But I want you to read it second, because what I found in. I just saw her. No shoes and a glossy Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. And for us, it was Sundays. And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. Yeah. Tippett: And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? We understand love as the most reliably transformative muscle of human wholeness, and we investigate the workings of love as public practice. Yeah. edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels. by being seen. the ground and the feast is where I live now. like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung 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. Yeah. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? I love it that youre already thinking that. 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. the truth is every song of this country And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. 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. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. 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. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? Oh my. us, still right now, a softness like a worn fabric of a nightshirt. and gloss. two brains now. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. We touch each other. 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. And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. Tippett: And we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. Page 40. cigarette smoke or expertise in recipes or, reading skills. And then what happened was the list that was in my head of poems I wasnt going to write became this poem. Tippett: I also think aging is underrated. 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. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. I was actually born at home. you can keep it until its needed, until you can I never go there very much anymore. Supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. Her presence on that stage was electric. 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. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. A scholar of belonging. A scholar of magic. 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