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. My familys all in California. For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. And theres sort of an invitation at the end. 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. We prioritize busyness. Tippett: And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? And so thats really a lot of how I was raised. And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. I cannot reverse it, the record We havent read much from, , which is a wonderful book. It began as "Speaking of Faith" in July 2003, and was renamed On Being in 2010. Limn: I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. And for a long time Sundays kind of unsettled me, even as an adult. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. We say, Oh, I want to write about this flower. And then we say, Why this flower? 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. It touches almost every aspect of human life in almost every society around the world right now. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. Ada Limn. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Why that color? unpoisoned, the song thats our birthright. 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. Centuries of pleasure before us and after And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. , and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. And the Q has the tail of a monkey, and weve forgotten this. [audience laughs] But instead to really have this moment of, Oh, no, its our work together to see one another. The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. We get curious, we interrogate, and we ask over and over again. Limn: I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. Im Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? and enough of the pointing to the world, weary When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. On Being with Krista Tippett On Being Studios Poetry Unbound On Being Studios Becoming Wise On Being Studios This Movie Changed Me On Being Studios Creating Our Own Lives On Being Studios More ways to shop: Find an Apple Store or other retailer near you. the collar, constriction of living. writes the word lover in a note and Im strangely, excited for the word lover to come back. And it sounds like thunder? 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. 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. But we dont need to belabor that. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. I do think I enjoy it. Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. Its still the elements. 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. with their fish tanks or eight-tracks or So well just be on an adventure together. A scholar of belonging. A scholar of magic. She grew up loving science fiction, and thought wed be driving flying cars by now; and yet, has found in speculative fiction the transformative force of vision and imagination that might in fact save us. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. Yeah. Krista Tippett leaves public radio. We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright. 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. 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. We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. We were brought together in a collaboration between Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Milkweed Editions. So would you read, its called Before, page 46. Is it okay? The danger of all poets and I think artists in general, is it some moment we think we dont deserve to do this work because what does it do? , 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. 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.. 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. And I hope, I dont think anybody here will mind. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. I have a lot of poems that basically are that. And its true. On Being is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project. Limn: [laughs] Yeah. So we have to do this another time. We prioritize busyness. how the wind shakes a tree in a storm We surface this as a companion for the frontiers we are all on just by virtue of being alive in this time. Thats how this machine works. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. I write. And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. 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. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. are your bones, and your bones are my bones. Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. So I think were going to just have a lot of poetry tonight. several years later and a changed world later. 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. So the poem you wrote, Joint Custody. You get asked to read it. You ever think you could cry so hard This definitely speaks to that. 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. Tippett: Thats so wonderful. 4.07 avg rating 5,187 ratings published 2016 20 editions. Image by Danyang Ma, All Rights Reserved. Tacos. Because you did write a great essay called Taco Truck Saved my Marriage.. 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 . Im learning so many different ways to be quiet. But I think theres so much in this poem thats about that idea that the thesis thats returned to the river. Tippett: 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. Written and read by Tippett: To be made whole/ by being not a witness,/ but witnessed. Can you say a little bit about that? Krista Tippett; Filtrer Krista Tippett Voir les critres de classement. 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. squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover. Two families, two different Theres whole books about how to breathe. A friend, lover, come back to the five-and-dime. The thesis is still the wind. The thesis is still a river. The thesis has never been exile., Yeah. And then Ill say this, that the Library of Congress, theyre amazing, and the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, had me read this poem, so. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. Tippett: So the poem you wrote, Joint Custody. You get asked to read it. Okay. So anyway, I got The Hurting Kind, the galley in the mail from Milkweed. We elevate voices of wisdom and models of wise thinking, speaking, and living. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. Its a prose poem. It comes back to these questions of like, Why do I get to be lucky in this way? Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can. 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. Before the new apartment. Okay, Im going to give you some choices. a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. I love it that youre already thinking that. Silence, which we dont get enough of. Copyright 2023. the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two 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 it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. Join our constellation of listening and living. us, still right now, a softness like a worn fabric of a nightshirt. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. Page 40. cigarette smoke or expertise in recipes or, reading skills. Seems like a good place for a close-eyed rough wind, chicken legs, by the crane. Journalist, National Humanities Medalist, and bestselling author Krista Tippett has created a singular space for reflection and conversation in American and global public life. abundance? I love it that youre already thinking that. Before the koi were all eaten For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. I feel like I could hear that response, right? The podcast's foundation is the same as the groundbreaking radio concept. capture, capture, capture. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. And together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. We value the ancient power of storytelling, and we get that good stories require conflict, characters and scene. Just the title of this, I feel is such an invitation and not the kind of invitation that was being made. Tippett: Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam. 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. for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam, 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. a finalist for the National Book Award. Before the dogs chain. A friend I really love . But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. [laughter]. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. for it again, the hazardous And I always thought it was just because I had to work. 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. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. the collar, constriction of living. I think I trusted its unknowing and its mystery in a way that I distrusted maybe other forms of writing up until then. Youre never like, Oh, Im just done grieving. I mean, you can pretend you are, right, but we arent. Copyright 2023, And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). 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. No, theres so much to enjoy. Want to Read. We speak the language of questions. Only my head is for you. beneath us, and I was just 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. And it is definitely wine country and all of the things that go along with that. And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. Her six books of poetry include, most recently, The Hurting Kind. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama . out. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. Page 40. Because there are a lot of unhelpful things that have been told to me. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. But let me say, I was taken 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. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. The thesis has never been exile. These are heavier, page 86 and page 87. 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. Many of us were having different experiences. Or, Im suffering, or Right. If you are here, you are likely already part of this. I think there are things we all learned also. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. But its true. 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. The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. We can forget this. 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. by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left. Why did I never see it for what it was: In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. We think time is always time. 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: I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. song. 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. Ive got a bone. Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. water, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease, So at this point in my notes, I have three words in bold with exclamation points. Limn: Yeah. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. And I want you to read it. Limn: That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. 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. Theres a lot of different People. 1. Tippett: Its that Buddhist, the finger pointing at the moon, right? And it was this moment of like, Oh, this is abundance. She loves the ocean. Its got breath, its got all those spaces. We envision a world that is more fluent in its own humanity and thus able to rise to the great challenges and promise of this century. 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. is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Tippett: [laughs] Yeah. lover, come back to the five-and-dime. We can forget this. A few years ago, Krista hosted an event in Detroit a city in flux on the theme of raising children. And now Tippett has done it again. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? maybe dove, maybe dunno to be honest, too embryonic, too see-through and wee. teeth right before they break But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. water, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease, It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. My grandmother is 98. What, she asks, if we get this right? has lost everything, when its not a weapon, Ive got a bone Many of us were having different experiences. 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