Limn: Yeah. The bright side is not talked about. I think I trusted its unknowing and its mystery in a way that I distrusted maybe other forms of writing up until then. I would say about 50 percent, maybe 60 percent of it was written during the pandemic. Suppose its easy to slip Oh, thank you. But let me say, I was taken And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. Page 40. She loves the ocean. by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, [audience laughs] But instead to really have this moment of, Oh, no, its our work together to see one another. And enough so that actually, as I would always sort of interrogate her about her beliefs and, Do you think this, do you think that? We are located on Dakota land. All year, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. This definitely speaks to that. We can forget this. the truth is every song of this country has lost everything, when its not a weapon, Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. Limn: Oh, thank you. 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. hoping our team wins. I spoke with Ada Limn at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. Nov 28, 2022. Also: Kristin Brogdon, Lindsey Siders, Brad Kern, John Marks, Emery Snow and the entire staff at both Northrop and the Ted Mann Concert Hall of the University of Minnesota. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. 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. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who No, question marks. We meet longings for justice and healing by equipping for reflection, repair, and joy. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. red helmet, I rode This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. Woodworking and the meaning of life. Before the apple tree. Yeah. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. "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 . At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word. We want to orient towards that possibility. Now, somethings, breaking always on the skyline, falling over We want to meet what is hard and hurting. of the world is both gaze Each of us imprints the people in the world around us . Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. Tippett: 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 [laughter]. Before the dogs chain. Special thanks this week to Daniel Slager, Yanna Demkiewicz, and Katie Hill at Milkweed Editions. He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. 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 that there was this break when we moved from pictographic language, which is characters which directly refer to the things spoken, and when we moved to the phonetic alphabet. Or, Im suffering, or Right. [laughter] Were like, Ugh, I feel calmer.. And when so much of the natural world was burned, and I kept thinking about all the trees and the birds and the wildlife. So its a very special place. 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. We keep forgetting about Antlia, Centaurus, Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). Why did I never see it for what it was: 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 now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. body. So well just be on an adventure together. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living by Krista Tippe at the best online prices at eBay! Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. How to make that more vibrant, more visible, and more defining? Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. I think there was also he also was a singer, so he would just sing. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Im really longing I realized as I was preparing for this, Im just Of course, I read poetry, I read a lot of poetry in these last years, but I realized Im craving hearing poetry. Limn: Kind of true. Perhaps SHARE. Bottlebrush trees attract 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 . if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big 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. Also because so much of whats been and again, its not just in the past, what has happened, has been happening below the level of consciousness in our bodies. I cannot reverse it, the record, chaotic track. and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis Yeah. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. It has ever and always been true, David Whyte reminds us, that so much of human experience is a conversation between loss and celebration. I mean, thats how we read. Yeah. We inhabit a liminal time between what we thought we knew and what we cant quite yet see. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. This is amazing. Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, has become a leading figure in narrative nonfiction with The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste. Written and read by 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. 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. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. 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 . [Music: Molerider by Blue Dot Sessions]. 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. And this, it turns out, is also a primary source of his tethering in values. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call, to the field, something to get through before, the pummeling of youth. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call 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. If you are here, you are likely already part of this. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified. You should take a nap. [laughter] I know its cruel. kitchen tables, two sets of rules, two Youre very young. Oh, Im stressed. Oh, if you want to know about stress, let me tell you, Im stressed., I like to tell my friends when they say theyre really stressed, Ill be like, Oh, I took the most wonderful nap. Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called "Complicating the Narratives," which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. And theyre like, Oh, I didnt know that was a thing.. And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. And place is always place. Seems like a good place for a close-eyed I think there was also he also was a singer, so he would just sing. Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a much-loved show as her voice was just rising in common life. rough wind, chicken legs, Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine.. Yeah. Or theres just something happens and you get all of a sudden for it to come flooding back. July 4, 2022 9:00 am. love it again, until the song in your mouth feels Definitely. Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower. But I love it. the collar, constriction of living. Listen Download Transcript. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. Yeah. Im like, Yes. My grandmother is 98. That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the wise people in our world. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. I think its definitely a writing prompt too, right? Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista. It wasnt used as a tool. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. 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. We live the questions. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. Limn: Yeah. Its so interesting because I feel like one of the things as you age, as an artist, as a human being, you start to rethink the stories that people have told you and start to wonder what was useful and what was not useful. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. Tippett: 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. And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine., Tippett: [laughs] Yeah. Tippett: Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. 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. Learn more at. And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. Tippett: And then Joint Custody from The Hurting Kind. On Being with Krista Tippett December 6, 2016. We elevate voices of wisdom and models of wise thinking, speaking, and living. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. @KristaTippett is the host of @OnBeing podcast and a NYTimes bestselling author. Mosaque Liste Walking in Wonder Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World - ebook (ePub) John Quinn . Her six books of poetry include, most recently, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her book. And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1,000 people, packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. Yeah, it was completely unnatural. Tippett: I dont expect you to have the page number memorized. Good conflict. Technology and vitality. and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. Centuries of pleasure before us and after I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. 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. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. Many have turned to David Whyte for his gorgeous, life-giving poetry and his wisdom at the interplay of theology, psychology, and leadership his insistence on the power of a beautiful question and of everyday words amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. 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. We havent read much from The Carrying, which is a wonderful book. And for us, it was Sundays. 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, Ive never cared for the National, Anthem. And then I would say in terms of the sacred, it was always the natural world. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. I never go there very much anymore. Definitely. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. Tippett: And this is about your childhood, right? And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? [laughter] Sometimes its just staring out the window. 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. But when we talk about the limitations of language in general, I find language is so strange. So anyway, I got The Hurting Kind, the galley in the mail from Milkweed. We literally. into anothers, that sounds like a match being lit Limn: Yeah. Science and the Human Spirit. Find them at fetzer.org. No, really I was. But time is more spacious than we imagine it to be, and it is more of a friend than we always know. The On Being Project Its so interesting because I feel like one of the things as you age, as an artist, as a human being, you start to rethink the stories that people have told you and start to wonder what was useful and what was not useful. Musings and tools to take into your week. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. So would you read, its called Before, page 46. Tippett: So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy, and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis, of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god. 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. enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough 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.. Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. Thats page 95. Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. 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. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. No, theres so much to enjoy. On Being is an hour-long radio show and podcast, hosted by Krista Tippett. And so I gave up on it. sometimes buried without even a song. [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 . Easy light storms in through the window, soft, edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels, nest rigged high in the maple. 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 honor poets and poetry as necessary companions in mustering words spacious and generous enough to reach across the mystery of ourselves and the mystery of each other. So it had this kind of wonderful way of existing in an aliveness of a language, aliveness of a second language as opposed to just sort of a need to get something or to use. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. Youre very young. And I knew immediately that it was a love poem and a loss poem. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, 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. Thats how this machine works. 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 it sounds like thunder? We journalists, she wrote, "can summon outrage in five words or Krista Tippett is the creator and host of the On Being and Becoming Wise podcasts as well as curator of The Civil Conversations Project. 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. We keep forgetting about Antlia, Centaurus, But mostly were forgetting were dead stars too, my mouth is full, of dust and I wish to reclaim the rising, to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward. the collar, constriction of living. Limn: Because I love this poem, and no one has ever asked me to read this poem. 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. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. And then thats also the space for us to sort of walk in as a reader being like, Whats happening here? Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. 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.". 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. Krista Tippett. Right. 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. 10 distinct works Similar authors. Yeah. 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. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. , 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. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. Tippett: Well, a lot of us I think are still a little agoraphobic. Our closing music was composed by Gautam Srikishan. 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