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So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to Be Whole Nick just recorded. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Yeah, that was true. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. Definitely. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our Foundations for Being Alive Now. Can you locate that? Something I remember reading is that you grew up in an English-speaking household, but your paternal grandfather spoke Spanish and that you just loved to listen to him. We want to orient towards that possibility. With. It suddenly just falls apart [laughter], Limn: 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. 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. It touches almost every aspect of human life in almost every society around the world right now. And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. Tippett: Right. On Being with Krista Tippett is about focusing on the immensity of our lives. Too high for most of us with the rockets Yeah. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. Before the road On Being with Krista Tippett. Tippett: As we turn the corner from pandemic, although we will not completely turn the corner, I just wanted to read something you wrote on Twitter, which was hilarious. Listen Download Transcript. I live in the low parts now, most 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. Tippett: A lot of them are in the On Being studio, they come in the mail. Tippett: I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. This means that I am in a reciprocal relationship with the natural world, not that it is my job to be the poet that goes and says, Tree, I will describe it to you. [audience laughs] I have a lot of poems that basically are that. And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. big enough not to let go: We read for sense. as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. I really love . 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 . We havent read much from The Carrying, which is a wonderful book. She loves human beings. Limn: I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. To be swallowed So, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened World.. Thats such a wonderful question. 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. In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. Centuries of pleasure before us and after. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. But in the present era of tribalism, it feels like weve reached our collective limitations Again and again, we have escalated the conflict and snuffed the complexity out of the conversation.. Tippett: Thats so wonderful. Its repeating words. Limn: I think its very dangerous not to have hope. I get four parents that come to the school nights. And I felt like I was not brave enough to own that for myself. Limn: Oh, thank you. I want to say first of all, how happy I am to be doing something with Milkweed, which I have known since I moved to Minnesota, I dont know, over a quarter century ago, to be this magnificent but quiet, local publisher. And now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. 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? Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. 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. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. My grandmother is 98. Youre never like, Oh, Im just done grieving. I mean, you can pretend you are, right, but we arent. that sounds like someones rough fingers weaving Yeah. I dont expect you to have the page number memorized. Tippett: Okay. @KristaTippett is the host of @OnBeing podcast and a NYTimes bestselling author. The great eye. podcast, this great poetry podcast for a while and. like something almost worth living for. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call Thats the work of poetry in general, right? All year, Ive said, You know whats funny? 25 Sep. 2014. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. This is science that invites us to nourish the brains we need, young and old, to live in this world. the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. Limn: Yes. has lost everything, when its not a weapon, And now Tippett has done it again. What is the thesis word or the wind? And it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. 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. Yeah. We are fluent in the story of our time marked by catastrophe and dysfunction. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. And they would say, I dont want to go to yoga. And I was like, Why? And they said, I just dont want anyone telling me when to breathe.. If you think about it, its not a good, song. We can forget this. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. Tippett: Look at all these people. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. Limn: I do think I enjoy it. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. 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. unpoisoned, the song thats our birthright, 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. But we dont need to belabor that. And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. 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. of the mother and the child and the father and the child Find them at fetzer.org. What Amanda has been gathering by way of answers to that question is an extraordinary gift to us all. Limn: Oh, definitely. (Unedited) The Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Krista Tippett. 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. You should take a nap.. Like, Oh, take a deep breath. Then we get annoyed when it works, too. , and its a villanelle, so its got a very strict rhyme scheme. I could be both an I Yeah, it was completely unnatural. and isnt that enough? Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? in an endless cave, the song that says my bones I just saw her. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. And they would say, I dont want to go to yoga. And I was like, Why? And they said, I just dont want anyone telling me when to breathe. [laughter] But its true. hoping our team wins. Its almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called "Complicating the Narratives," which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. On Being is an hour-long radio show and podcast, hosted by Krista Tippett. 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. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? 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. I have people who ask me, How do you write poems? And you talk about process. And also that notion and these are other things you said that poetry recognizes our wholeness. Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. And theres sort of an invitation at the end. Tippett: The thesis. and enough of the pointing to the world, weary Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels Sometimes youre, and so much of its. Its a prose poem. No, question marks. And it often falls apart from me. Yeah. This is not a problem. Tippett: I have your books, and theres some, too. We think were divided by issues, arguing about conflicting facts. 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. I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. It wasnt used as a tool. The thesis is still the wind. The thesis is still a river. The thesis has never been exile., Yeah. Page 20. Dont get me wrong, I do, like the flag, how it undulates in the wind. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. They bring our nervous system and heartbeat and breath into sync and even into sync with other bodies around us. Limn: And hes like, Are you trying to ask me what the weather is? [laughter] Im like, Yes. I could. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. Krista Tippett is the creator and host of the On Being and Becoming Wise podcasts as well as curator of The Civil Conversations Project. 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 its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. 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. 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. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. Musings and tools to take into your week. Theres shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then theres a silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I cant be quiet anymore. recycling bin until you say, Man, we should really learn Our conversations create openings. And its page six of The Hurting Kind. 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. 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. Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. We speak the language of questions. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who But I want you to read it second, because what I found in. And we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. Youll see why in a minute. I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. Yeah. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. no hot gates, no house decayed. I have, before, been, tricked into believing Suppose its easy to slip song. Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. Where some of you were like, Eww, as soon as I said it. And also Im so happy to be together with you in the old-fashioned flesh, which we no longer take for granted. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Limn: Yeah, that was true. Tippett: as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. should write, huge and round and awful. the nectar lovers, and we 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. 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. Thank you all for coming. The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. The Pause. 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. Subscribe to the live your best life newsletter Sign up for the oprah.com live your best life newsletter Get more stories like this delivered to your inbox Get updates on your favorite . We havent read much from, , which is a wonderful book. 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. Limn: Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. maybe dove, maybe dunno to be honest, too embryonic, too see-through and wee. 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 . 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. snaking underneath us as we absentmindly sing Funny thing about grief, its hold No, question marks. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. And it is definitely wine country and all of the things that go along with that. the collar, constriction of living. And it feels important to me whenever Im in a room right now and I havent been in that many rooms with this many people sitting close together that we all just acknowledge that even if we all this exact same configuration of human beings had sat in this exact room in February 2020, and were back now, were changed at a cellular level. And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. Tippett: Maybe that speaks for itself. Weve come this far, survived this much. 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. rolling their trash bins out, after all of this is over? and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough. Yet what Amanda has gone on to investigate and so, so helpfully illuminate is not just about journalism, or about politics. 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. Oh, definitely. , 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. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. 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. I think thats very true. That arresting notion, and the distinction Rachel Naomi Remen draws between curing and healing, makes this an urgent offering to our world of healing we are all called to receive and to give. What would happen if we used our bodies to bargain. 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 the one that is so relieved to finally be home. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being . 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. 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.. We can forget this. Youre never like, Oh, Im just done grieving. I mean, you can pretend you are, right, but we arent. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. Be like, Oh, Im just done grieving tender as bodies breathing in proximity other. 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