But its about more than that. Yeah. Which makes me laugh, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. Ive been reading Ada Limn for years, and was so happy when she was named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. 4.07 avg rating 5,187 ratings published 2016 20 editions. And it was just me, the dog, and the cat, and the trees. She is a former host of the poetry podcast. Before the apple tree. But mostly were forgetting were dead stars too, my mouth is full Its almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue bury yourself in leaves, and wait for a breaking, And this particular poem was written after the 2017 fires in my home valley of Sonoma. 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. , and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. Copyright 2023. This poem is featured in Ada's On Being conversation with Krista, "To Be Made Whole.". 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 a prose poem. I live in the low parts now, most squeal with the idea of blissful release, oh lover, And then I kept thinking, What are the other things I can do that with?. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Why are all these blank spaces? It has silence built all around it. Tippett: And then Joint Custody from The Hurting Kind. by being not a witness, And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. So I love it when I feel like the conversations Im having start to be in conversation with each other. The truth is, Ive never cared for the National, Anthem. And we all have this, our childhood stories. Ada Limn reads her poem, "Dead Stars.". Out here, theres a bowing even the trees are doing. So well just be on an adventure together. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. Like, Oh, take a deep breath. Then we get annoyed when it works, too. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). Interesting. And so I have and over against the ground, sometimes. She loves the ocean. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. And I am so thrilled to have this conversation with Ada Limn to be part of our first season. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. 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.. Draco, Lacerta, Hydra, Lyra, Lynx. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. and enough of the pointing to the world, weary reading skills. Tippett: 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. how the wind shakes a tree in a storm , the galley in the mail from Milkweed. Yeah. Youre never like, Oh, Im just done grieving. I mean, you can pretend you are, right, but we arent. Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. But then I just examine all the different ways of being quiet. Our closing music was composed by Gautam Srikishan. Tippett: 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. Tune in now. In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. Tippett: I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. And I think most poets are drawn to that because it feels like what were always trying to do is say something that cant always entirely be said, even in the poem, even in the completed poem. A dream. And it often falls apart from me. Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels that thered be nothing left in you, like Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating. Okay, Im going to give you some choices. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. out. Thats the work of poetry in general, right? to pick with whoever is in charge. And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1,000 people, packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. 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. She hosted On Being on the radio for about two decades. These, it turns out, are as common in human life globally as they are measurably health-giving and immunity-boosting. Tippett: I love that. and the world. Shes teaching me a lesson. , and its a villanelle, so its got a very strict rhyme scheme. wind? And I think its in that category. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who This is a gift. And that reframing was really important to me. 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. beneath us, and I was just She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being . I could. And the Sonoma Coast is a really special place in terms of how its been preserved and protected throughout the years. what a word, what a world, this gray waiting. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. Harley at seven years old. We touch each other. I will trust the world and I will feel at peace. And this time, what came to me as I stood and looked at the trees was that Oh, it isnt just me looking. And its true. This is like a self-care poem. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. Okay, Im going to give you some choices. I feel like theres so many elements to that discovery. Limn: Yeah, I think theres so much value in grief. We want to orient towards that possibility. song. Limn: Yeah. And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine.. are your bones, and your bones are my bones. God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. 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. And then I kept thinking, What are the other things I can do that with? [laughter] Because there are a lot of unhelpful things that have been told to me. [laughter] I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. And for us, it was Sundays. 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. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. Yet her lifelong struggle with Crohns Disease and her pioneering work with cancer patients shaped her view of life. Tippett has interviewed guests ranging from poets to physicists, doctors to historians, artists to activists. It is the world and the trees and the grasses and the birds looking back. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. On Being with Krista 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. I cannot reverse it, the record 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. 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. 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. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. And if its weekly, theres a day of the week and you do it. Tippett: Which also makes it spiritual practice. 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. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. Limn: I love it. For her voice of insistent honesty and wholeness and wisdom and joyfulness. 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. But its true. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. And even as it relieves us of the need to sum everything up. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. This is amazing. Weve come this far, survived this much. "Beauty isn't all about just nice loveliness, like," O'Donohue tells Tippett. I have a lot of poems that basically are that. I remember writing this poem because I really love the word lover, and its a kind of polarizing word. So my interest, when I get into conversation with a poet, is not to talk, poetry, but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us. And isnt it strange that breathing is something that we have to get better at? Before the dogs chain. 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. and hand, the space between. Starting Thursday, February 2: three months of soaring new On Being conversations, with an eye towards emergence. 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. I write. 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. Tippett: And poetry is absolutely this is not something I knew would happen when I started this but poetry now is at the heart of On Being, its woven through everything. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. 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. Oh, definitely. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. of age. 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. In this spirit, our ecosystem of offerings launching across 2023 serve a far-flung global web of listeners/practitioners. I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. And now we have watched it in these 25 years go from strength, to strength, to strength. Too high for most of us with the rockets For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. 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 . Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called Complicating the Narratives, which she opened by confessing a professional existential crisis. Every week: practices and goodies to accompany your listen. And what of the stanzas, we never sing, the third that mentions no refuge, could save the hireling and the slave? for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam. What, she asks, if we get this right? Actually, thats in. I just saw her. Yeah. I dont know why this, but this. And I remember reading it was Elizabeth Bishops One Art, and its a villanelle, so its got a very strict rhyme scheme. I mean, thats how we read. Find Krista Tippett's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality. And the next one is Dead Stars. Which follows a little bit in terms of how do we live in this time of catastrophe that also calls us to rise and to learn and to evolve. thing, forever close-eyed, under a green plant. Want to Read. And then to do it on top of really global grief, that is a very kind of different work because then you think, Well, who am I to look at this flower? That its not my neighborhood, and they look beautiful. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). I love that you do this. just the bottlebrush alive Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. We say, Oh, I want to write about this flower. And then we say, Why this flower? Tippett: Right. enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy thats sung in silence when its too hard to go on, How are you?. We think time is always time. When you find a song or you find something and you think, This. as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. But let me say, I was taken She is a former host of the poetry podcast. 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. Or, Im suffering, or Right. And its a very interesting thing to be a kid that goes back and forth, and Im sure many people have this experience or have had that experience, where youre moving from one home to another. 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. Join our constellation of listening and living. Oh, Im stressed. Oh, if you want to know about stress, let me tell you, Im stressed., Limn: I like to tell my friends when they say theyre really stressed, Ill be like, Oh, I took the most wonderful nap. Oh my. Her volume The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award. From Feb 2: three months of soaring conversations to live and grow with with an eye towards emergence. We want to meet what is hard and hurting. whats larger within us, toward how we were born. So anyway, I got The Hurting Kind, the galley in the mail from Milkweed. And I think its in that category. July 4, 2022 9:00 am. 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]. And coming in future weeks, is a conversation with a technologist and artist named James Bridle, whose point is that language itself, the sounds we made and the words we finally formed, and the imagery and the metaphors were all primally, organically rooted in the natural world of which we were part. And then it hits you or something you, like you touch a doorknob, and it reminds you of your mothers doorknob. Transcription by Alletta Cooper Krista Tippett: I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. People will ask me a lot about my process and it is, like I said, silence. 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? Kalliopeia Foundation. the ground and the feast is where I live now. I could. We are located on Dakota land. And poetry, and poetry. 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. 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. And the right habitat for that, for all human flourishing, is for us to begin with a sense of belonging, with a sense of ease, with a sense that even though we are desirous and even though we want all of these things, right now, being alive, being human is enough. I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Limn: Yeah, that was true. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., At the top of the mountain 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. But I do think youre a bit of a So the thing is, we have this phrase, old and wise. But the truth is that a lot of people just grow old, it doesnt necessarily come with it. Its wonderful. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. 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 we've only begun to process and fathom. But its also a land that is really incredibly beautiful and special and sacred in a lot of different ways. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. Yeah. The bright side is not talked about. Krista Tippett has spent more than a decade exploring important questions of life, questions that often involve faith, science and spirituality on her popular radio program and podcast, "On Being." All came, and still comes, from the natural world. us, still right now, a softness like a worn fabric of a nightshirt. She is a former host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. Its that Buddhist, the finger pointing at the moon, right? She founded and leads the On Being Project ( www.onbeing.org )a groundbreaking media and public life . This is like a self-care poem. 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. should write, huge and round and awful. Limn: Kind of true. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. I feel like that between space, that liminal space, is a place where we were living for so long, and many of us still living in that between space of, How do I go into the world safely, and how do I move through the world with safety and care-take myself and care-take others. It wasnt used as a tool. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. 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. but witnessed. She loves human beings. So we have to do this another time. Shes written, Science polishes the gift of seeing, Indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language. An expert in moss a bryologist she describes mosses as the coral reefs of the forest. Robin Wall Kimmerer opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as inanimate. An accomplished journalist, author, and entrepreneur, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2014. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, . And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. 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. All year, in an oblivion-is-coming sort of way. Page 87. Its wonderful. And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. But let me say, I was taken, back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy, but I was loved each place. 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. I mean, I do right now. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? 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. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zo Keating. I think there are things we all learned also. And I love it, but I think that you go to it, as a poet, in an awareness of not only its limitations and its failures, but also very curious about where you can push it in order to make it into a new thing. 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. It was interesting to me to realize how people turned to you in pandemic because of who you are, it sounds like. 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. I am too used to nostalgia now, a sweet escape. for it again, the hazardous What follows is the transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Andrew Solomon, Parker Palmer and Anita Barrows. The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. creeks, two highways, two stepparents edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels. the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough I mean, thats how we read. Why dont you read The Quiet Machine? my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. But its about more than that. And: advance invitations and news on all things On Being, of course. It is still the wind. And yet at the same time, I do feel like theres this Its so much power in it. Theres daytime silent when I stare, and nighttime silent when I do things. 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. with a new hosta under the main feeder. Krista Tippett leaves public radio. , 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. Tippett: several years later and a changed world later. And you mentioned that when you wrote this, when was it that you wrote it? Tippett: Yeah. 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. I write the year, seems like a year you Yeah. Seems like a good place for a close-eyed Supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg, my brother and my husband to witness this, nearly clear body. 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. 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 . Its got breath, its got all those spaces. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. 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. And I feel like its very interesting when you actually have to get away from it, because you can also do the other thing where you focus too much on the breath. And it was this moment of like, Oh, this is abundance. This is a gift. And that reframing was really important to me. Thats page 95. And I hope, I dont think anybody here will mind. and I never knew survival And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. Yes I am. But I trust those moments. Yeah. The next-generation marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson would let that reality of belonging show us the way forward. Because how do we care for one another? So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified. 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.". 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. I think its very dangerous not to have hope. I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, Tippett: In The Hurting Kind. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. And I think when were talking about this, were talking about who we are right now, because were all carrying this. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Stood for the many mute mouths of the sea, of the land? We want to rise to what is beautiful and life-giving. Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. When I lived in New York City, my two best friends, I would always try to get them to go to yoga with me. And it often falls apart from me. And sometimes when youre going through it, you can kind of see the mono-crop of vineyards that its become. 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.. Theres whole books about how to breathe. Limn: And I love it, but I think that you go to it, as a poet, in an awareness of not only its limitations and its failures, but also very curious about where you can push it in order to make it into a new thing. like sustenance, a song where the notes are sung But I do think youre a bit of a So the thing is, we have this phrase, old and wise. But the truth is that a lot of people just grow old, it doesnt necessarily come with it. Oh, thank you. 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