Look, we are not unspectacular things. 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. Thats really hard. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? But time is more spacious than we imagine it to be, and it is more of a friend than we always know. Many of us were having different experiences. Its Spanish and English, and Im trying, and Ill look at him and be like, How much degrees is it?. 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. Ive got a bone. So can we just engage in this intellectual exercise with you because its completely fascinating and Im not sure whats going on, and Id like you to tell me. It is the world and the trees and the grasses and the birds looking back. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. The one that always misses where Im not, 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. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. 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. And you also wrote about that, and you also wrote this essay. 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 caesura and the line breaks, its breath. even the tenacious high school band off key. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. Tippett: I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. What follows is the transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Andrew Solomon, Parker Palmer and Anita Barrows. But I also feel a little bit out of practice with this live event thing. unnoticed, sometimes covered up like sorrow, Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. And this, it turns out, is also a primary source of his tethering in values. Im like, Yes. Theres daytime silent when I stare, and nighttime silent when I do things. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. You should take a nap.. One of the most fascinating developments of our time is that human qualities we have understood in terms of virtue experiences weve called spiritual are now being taken seriously by science as intelligence as elements of human wholeness. Special thanks this week to Daniel Slager, Yanna Demkiewicz, and Katie Hill at Milkweed Editions. Its that Buddhist, the finger pointing at the moon, right? Tippett: Okay. Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. Funny thing about grief, its hold 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? Limn: Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. 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. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who Alex Cochran, Deseret News. Between the ground and the feast is where I live now. That really spoke to me, on my sofa. So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. Where being at ease is not okay. We just ask questions. We keep forgetting about Antlia, Centaurus, In me, a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky. And shes animated by questions emerging from those loves and from the science she does which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. 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.. We think time is always time. So, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened World.. The podcast's foundation is the same as the groundbreaking radio concept. We nurture virtues that build muscle memory towards sustained new realities including generous listening, embodied presence, and transformative relationship across backgrounds and lived experience. 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. Right. So the poem you wrote, Joint Custody. You get asked to read it. Yeah. Journalist, National Humanities Medalist, and bestselling author Krista Tippett has created a singular space for reflection and conversation in American and global public life. Every week: practices and goodies to accompany your listen. We havent read much from, , which is a wonderful book. We speak the language of questions. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. Limn: Yeah. 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. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified. Sylvia gifts us this teaching: that nurturing childrens inner lives can be woven into the fabric of our days and that nurturing ourselves is also good for the children and everyone else in our lives. Thats page 95. That its not my neighborhood, and they look beautiful. 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.. We read for sense. into anothers green skin, Tippett: I dont expect you to have the page number memorized. between us there was the road 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. But its about more than that. If youre having trouble writing or creating or whatever it is you make, when was the last time you just sat in silence with yourself and listened to what was happening? for the safety of others, for earth, Limn: Yeah. rough wind, chicken legs, 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. "On Being," a weekly interview show about the mysteries of human existence, hosted by Krista Tippett, airs on nearly 400 public radio stations, with more than half a million weekly listeners . 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 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. Copyright 2023. 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. 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. for the water to stop shivering out of the You may also catch references to things seen and witnessed throughout the event including a stunning opening poem by our dear friend Maria Popova, composed of On Being show titles which you can take in fully by viewing the recorded celebration in its entirety on our YouTube channel. [laughter] Were like, Ugh, I feel calmer.. 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. I mean, I do right now. And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. Tippett: 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. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. Because how do we care for one another? Two entirely different brains. Tippett: Thats so wonderful. Tippett: several years later and a changed world later. on all sides with want. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being . The Adventure of Civility. 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. You should take a nap. [laughter] I know its cruel. Tippett: And we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. Limn: Oh, thank you. But I think theres so much in this poem thats about that idea that the thesis thats returned to the river. This is amazing. There is also an ordinary and abundant unfolding of dignity and care and generosity, of social creativity and evolution and breakthrough. [2] Her guests include the 14th Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, Mohammed Fairouz, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rosanne Cash, Wangari Maathai, Yo-Yo Ma, Paulo Coehlo . with a new hosta under the main feeder. Only my head is for you. So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. 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. and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, Its got breath, its got all those spaces. Limn: Yeah. 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 it was this moment of like, Oh, this is abundance. I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. Editor's note: This Q&A has been adapted from the podcast "Interfaith America with Eboo Patel.". And that feels like its an active thing as opposed to a finished thing, a closed thing. no one has been writing the year lately. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. And we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. Articles by Krista Tippett on Muck Rack. I dont know why this, but this. And I remember reading it was Elizabeth Bishops. to pick with whoever is in charge. Tippett: But we dont need to belabor that. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. the date at the top of a letter; though the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. And together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. could save the hireling and the slave? Ada Limn reads her poem, "Dead Stars.". Yeah, I was convinced. 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. Tippett: I love that. and buried, I go about my day, which isnt, ordinary, exactly, because nothing is ordinary I have people who ask me, How do you write poems? And you talk about process. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). But its about more than that. and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis Yet it is a deep truth in life as in science that each of us is shaped as much by the quality of the questions we are asking as by the answers we have it in us to give. If youre having trouble writing or creating or whatever it is you make, when was the last time you just sat in silence with yourself and listened to what was happening? 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 . inward and the looking up, enough of the gun, Tippett: Maybe that speaks for itself. Limn: Yeah. of age. So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to Be Whole Nick just recorded. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. So maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. Limn: [laughs] Yeah. Okay. that thered be nothing left in you, like But let me say, I was taken My familys all in California. Yeah. Weve come this far, survived this much. To be swallowed Flipboard. Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. abundance? is so bright and determined like a flame, Join these two friends and interpreters of the human condition for . by being not a witness, Tippett: 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. 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 . The thesis is still the wind. The thesis is still a river. The thesis has never been exile., Limn: Yeah. Krista Tippett: I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. days a little hazy with fever and waiting I was actually born at home. Limn: Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. And for us, it was Sundays. to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward I cannot reverse it, the record So its a very special place. 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. Im learning so many different ways to be quiet. [Laughter] I feel like I could hear that response, right? Like, Oh, take a deep breath. 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