And so I have. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. Alex Cochran, Deseret News. Cracking time open, seeing its true manifold nature, expands a sense of the possible in the here and the now. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. Weve come this far, survived this much. 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? 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. SHARE. So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to Be Whole Nick just recorded. She loves the ocean. But I think there was something deeper going on there, which was that idea of, Oh, this is when you pack up and you move. And I even had a pet mouse named Fred, which you would think I wouldve had a more creative name for the mouse, but his name was Fred. 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. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., At the top of the mountain lover, come back to the five-and-dime. Tippett: And then a trauma of the pandemic was that our breathing became a danger to strangers and beloveds. 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. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. Nov 28, 2022. On Being with Krista Tippett is about focusing on the immensity of our lives. Limn: Yeah, I was convinced. for it again, the hazardous And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. 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. The phrase mental health itself makes less and less sense in light of the wild interactivity we can now see between what weve falsely compartmentalized as physical, emotional, mental, even spiritual. Limn: That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. 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. 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.". Krista Tippett is the creator and host of the On Being and Becoming Wise podcasts as well as curator of The Civil Conversations Project. Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Woodworking and the meaning of life. And so I have And it sounds like thunder? enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. I think I enjoy getting older. It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. Once it has been witnessed, and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary, now even when it is ordinary. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? strong and between sleep, the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. 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. But its true. He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big 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. 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. 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. Its still the elements. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. And then I would say in terms of the sacred, it was always the natural world. We elevate voices of wisdom and models of wise thinking, speaking, and living. 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 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. What a time to be alive, adrienne maree brown has written. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. And I am so thrilled to have this conversation with Ada Limn to be part of our first season. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call Its still the elements. In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. One of the most popular episodes in the history of "On Being," the 15-year-old public-radio program hosted by the honey-voiced Krista Tippett, is a conversation Tippett had more than ten years ago with the late Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the subject of the inner landscape of beauty. fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body 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. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. I get four parents that come to the school nights. And I felt like I was not brave enough to own that for myself. A friend So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. 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. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. Talk about any of the limits of language, the failure of language. This poem is featured in Ada's On Being conversation with Krista, "To Be Made Whole.". Limn: Yeah. its like staring into an original 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 the Q has the tail of a monkey, and weve forgotten this. We hold each other. Okay. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. like something almost worth living for. 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. A student of change and of how groups change together. And that feels like its an active thing as opposed to a finished thing, a closed thing. I feel like I could hear that response, right? thats sung in silence when its too hard to go on, us, still right now, a softness like a worn fabric of a nightshirt. And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine.. 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. But I mean, Ive listened to every podcast shes done, so Im aware. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. Page 40. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. 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. Kalliopeia Foundation. I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, Tippett: In The Hurting Kind. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. 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. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. Tippett: I think grief is something that is very We have so much to grieve even as we have so much to walk towards. and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. Tippett: I have your books, and theres some, too. But he is driven by passionate callings older and deeper than his public vocation as an actor and comedian. about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. Theres daytime silent when I stare, and nighttime silent when I do things. All year, Ive said, You know whats funny? In between my tasks, I find a dead fledgling, I dont even mourn him, just all matter-of-, fact-like take the trowel, plant the limp body, thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant, in the ground, under the feast up above. And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. But its also a land that is really incredibly beautiful and special and sacred in a lot of different ways. This is science that invites us to nourish the brains we need, young and old, to live in this world. I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. 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. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. And I think its in that category. I write the year, seems like a year you 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. I just saw her. Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. enough of the will to go on and not go on or how a finalist for the National Book Award. Ive got a bone reading skills. 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. Because how do we care for one another? Join these two friends and interpreters of the human condition for . [laughter] I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. 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 . And it says, You are here. And I felt like every day Id write a poem was literally putting that little, You are here dot on a map. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough I mean, thats how we read. And I was feeling very isolated. It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. Weve come this far, survived this much. I mean, I do right now. I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape. 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. What is the thesis word or the wind? [laughter]. I remember having this experience I was sort of very deeply alone during the early days of the pandemic when my husbands work brought him to another state. The one that always misses where Im not. Tippett: I dont expect you to have the page number memorized. into an expansion, a heat. 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. And it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. you look back and beg This definitely speaks to that. 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. So you grew up in Sonoma, California, but my sense is that its not the land of Zinfandel and Pinot Noir that immediately comes to mind now when someone says Sonoma. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. She is a former host of the poetry podcast. Musings and tools to take into your week. We orient away from the closure of fear and towards the opening of curiosity. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being . In me. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. But let me say, I was taken, back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy, but I was loved each place. I dont know why this, but this. And I remember reading it was Elizabeth Bishops. Robin is a botanist and also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. We read for sense. the truth is every song of this country 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. 4.07 avg rating 5,187 ratings published 2016 20 editions. And poetry is absolutely this is not something I knew would happen when I started this but poetry now is at the heart of. I cannot reverse it, the record And its page six of The Hurting Kind. Before the new apartment. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. On Being with Krista Tippett | 5 minute podcast summaries on Apple . I could. So would you read, its called Before, page 46. Definitely. Too high for most of us with the rockets. The Pause. 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. inward and the looking up, enough of the gun, And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. And place is always place. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. 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, _. 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 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. Maybe that speaks for itself. Only my head is for you. Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. how the wind shakes a tree in a storm 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. 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. 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