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? And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course, The On Being Project And the title comes from when youre planting a tree and youre looking for where the sun is the right space, you can draw where the circles are, and theyll tell you to plant where the circles overlap. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Yeah, that was true. On Being Studios's tracks [Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. They are honoring and recovering the fullness of the human experience the life of the mind, the truth of the body, the wild mystery of the spirit, and our need for each other. I almost think that this poem could be used as a meditation. The Adventure of Civility. 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. 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. We get curious, we interrogate, and we ask over and over again. the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. We read for sense. 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. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. 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. Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. that sounds like someones rough fingers weaving It is the world and the trees and the grasses and the birds looking back. Yeah. This conversational nature of reality indeed, this drama of vitality is something we have all been shown, willing or unwilling, in these years. 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. I mean, I do right 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. Too high for most of us with the rockets Yeah. Its Spanish and English, and Im trying, and Ill look at him and be like, How much degrees is it?. 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. Alex Cochran, Deseret News. I cannot reverse it, the record, chaotic track. 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. 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. No shoes and a glossy the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands should write, huge and round and awful. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. are your bones, and your bones are my bones. Before the apple tree. But its true. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call, to the field, something to get through before, the pummeling of youth. How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. 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 now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. No, really I was. The great eye. Tippett: And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. Limn: Exactly. in the ground, under the feast up above. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. What was it? 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. on all sides with want. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant. Patel is a Deseret contributor. 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. You boiled it down. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? 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 speak the language of questions. Yeah. 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. We prioritize busyness. It makes room for all of these things that can also be It holds all the truths at once too. Limn: Yeah. And there was an ease, I think, that living in the head-only world was kind of a poets dream on some level. with their fish tanks or eight-tracks or And now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Limn: Yeah. creeks, two highways, two stepparents 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. The truth is, Ive never cared for the National And if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. Maybe that speaks for itself. Easy light storms in through the window, soft, edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels, nest rigged high in the maple. Now, somethings, breaking always on the skyline, falling over , the galley in the mail from Milkweed. When you open the page, theres already silence. It comes back to these questions of like, Why do I get to be lucky in this way? 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? , its woven through everything. It just offers more questions. And just as there are callings for a life, there are callings for our time. red helmet, I rode No, theres so much to enjoy. And together you kind of have this relationship. Which I hadnt had before. and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. But if you look at even the letters we use in our the A actually was initially a drawing of an ox, and M was water. are your bones, and your bones are my bones, Winters icy hand at the back of all of us. 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 maybe just to use a natural world metaphor to just dip our toes into the water, would you read Sanctuary? Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. Many of us were having different experiences. the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. Limn: Yeah. That you can be joyful and you can actually be really having a wonderful time. And this is about your childhood, right? This is a gift. And that reframing was really important to me. A dream. scratched and stopped to the original [laughter]. Theres whole books about how to breathe. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? I write. All right. Sometimes its just staring out the window. On Being with Krista Tippett. [laughter] But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. Find them at, Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Editor's note: This Q&A has been adapted from the podcast "Interfaith America with Eboo Patel.". We orient away from the closure of fear and towards the opening of curiosity. The one that always misses where Im not. 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 it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. is so bright and determined like a flame, I think grief is something that is very We have so much to grieve even as we have so much to walk towards. 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. Krista Tippett. The Hearthland Foundation. bury yourself in leaves, and wait for a breaking, And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. Find more of her poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry. 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. Tippett: Look at all these people. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. And it sounds like thunder? But he is driven by passionate callings older and deeper than his public vocation as an actor and comedian. writes the word lover in a note and Im strangely, excited for the word lover to come back. Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? But let me say, I was taken until every part of it is run through with 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. She founded and leads the On Being Project ( www.onbeing.org )a groundbreaking media and public life . 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. The Pause. a finalist for the National Book Award. All year, Ive said, You know whats funny? 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. 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. 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. Or, Im suffering, or Right. Before the ceramics in the garbage. edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels. And I knew that at 15. We live the questions. the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left Our closing music was composed by Gautam Srikishan. And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. Limn: And then you go, Oh no, no, thats just recycling. So thats in the poem. There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies that Kimberley Wilson takes us on this hour. Tippett: 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. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. I think thats very true. And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. I have people who ask me, How do you write poems? And you talk about process. And its funny to tell people that youre raised an atheist because theyre like, Really? But I was. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. to pick with whoever is in charge. 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. And both parents all four of my parents, I should say would point those things out, that special quality of connectedness that the natural world offers us. But in reality its home to so many different kind of wildlife. Its repeating words. Find them at fetzer.org. Free shipping for many products! So I think there was a lot of, not only was it music, but then it was music in Spanish. 10 distinct works Similar authors. And also that notion and these are other things you said that poetry recognizes our wholeness. is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. 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. 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. When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. She hosts the On Being podcast and leads The On Being Project, a non-profit media and public life initiative that pursues deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. Special thanks this week to Daniel Slager, Yanna Demkiewicz, and Katie Hill at Milkweed Editions. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. That is real but its not the whole story of us. Musings and tools to take into your week. We think time is always time. 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. inward and the looking up, enough of the gun, the drama, and the acquaintances suicide, the long-lost, letter on the dresser, enough of the longing and, the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough, of the mother and the child and the father and the child, and enough of the pointing to the world, weary. Suppose its easy to slip I mean, isnt this therapeutic also for us all to laugh about this now, also to know that we can laugh about it now? And place is always place. And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. I just saw her. Exit We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright. 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. 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