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You should take a nap. [laughter] I know its cruel. chaotic track. 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. On Being with Krista Tippett On Being Studios Society & Culture 4.6 9.1K Ratings; A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about, for reasons she would never have imagined: you are what you eat. 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. I could be both an I We know joy to be a life-giving, resilience-making human birthright. And that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. This is science that invites us to nourish the brains we need, young and old, to live in this world. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. Its got breath, its got all those spaces. abundance? I think coming back to this idea that poetry is as embodied as it is linguistic. 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. 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. Alice Parker Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. I feel like our breath is so important to how we move through the world, how we react to things. What happens after we die? And she says, Well, you die, and you get to be part of the Earth, and you get to be part of what happens next. And it was just a very sort of matter-of-fact way of looking at the world. My grandmother is 98. Good, good. I have your books, and theres some, too. And I think there was this moment where I was like, Oh, Im just sort of living to see what happens next. And the grief is also giving me a reason to get up. Krista Tippett: I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air. Many of us were having different experiences. strong and between sleep, So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned. 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. Tippett: Thats so wonderful. to pick with whoever is in charge. Theres a lot of different People. Look, we are not unspectacular things. And it is definitely wine country and all of the things that go along with that. Tippett: several years later and a changed world later. Tippett: Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? From the earliest years of his career, he investigated how emotions are coded in the muscles of our faces, and how they serve as moral sensory systems. He was called on as Emojis evolved; he consulted on Pete Docters groundbreaking movie Inside Out. The Hearthland Foundation. adrienne maree brown "We are in a time of new suns" On Being with Krista Tippett Society & Culture "What a time to be alive," adrienne maree brown has written. Cracking time open, seeing its true manifold nature, expands a sense of the possible in the here and the now. so mute its almost in another year. 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. 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. My body is for me.. and then, 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. podcast, this great poetry podcast for a while and. And its funny to tell people that youre raised an atheist because theyre like, Really? But I was. Yeah, because its made with words, but its also sensory and its bodily. Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. , 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. All year, Ive said, You know whats funny? are your bones, and your bones are my bones. Talk about any of the limits of language, the failure of language. So it was always this level in which what was being created and made as he was in my life was always musical. of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god 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. An accomplished journalist, author, and entrepreneur, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2014. And then I kept thinking, What are the other things I can do that with?. the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands What happens after we die? And she says, Well, you die, and you get to be part of the Earth, and you get to be part of what happens next. And it was just a very sort of matter-of-fact way of looking at the world. Youre very young. I think that there is a lot about trying to figure out who we are with ourselves. And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine.. brought to its knees, clung to by someone who Tippett: 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. On Being, which began on public radio, has been named a best podcast by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio with more than 400 million downloads. some new constellations. Tippett: I dont expect you to have the page number memorized. for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam, The truth is, Ive never cared for the National, Anthem. Nothing, nothing is funny. 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. the pummeling of youth. 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. 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 that between space was the only space that really made sense to me. And I feel like theres a level of mystery thats allowed in the poem that feels like, Okay, I can maybe read this into it, I can put myself into it, and it becomes sort of its own thing. Actually, thats in. In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. 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. . the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. Like, Oh, take a deep breath. Then we get annoyed when it works, too. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. I think I enjoy getting older. for the safety of others, for earth, Limn: Yeah. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. 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.. Do you remember the Colbert Report 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. [laughter] And I always think about that because of course, its so ironic that we have to think about our breath. We just ask questions. On Being is an hour-long radio show and podcast, hosted by Krista Tippett. 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. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zo Keating. I love it that youre already thinking that. 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. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. It wasnt used as a tool. Limn: Yeah. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. Tippett: I chose a couple of poems that you wrote again that kind of speak to this. This might be hard for some of you right here. And for a long time Sundays kind of unsettled me, even as an adult. And it wasnt until really, when I was writing that poem that the word came to me. Tippett: Right. Limn: Yeah. 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. Okay, Im going to give you some choices. And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? Im really glad youre enjoying it because theres many more decades. Shes teaching me a lesson. Tippett: I also think aging is underrated. And that was in shorter supply than one would think. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. So I want to do two more, also from. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough It has ever and always been true, David Whyte reminds us, that so much of human experience is a conversation between loss and celebration. So that even when youre talking about the natural world: we are of it not in it. We want to rise to what is beautiful and life-giving. Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. I grew up in Glen Ellen in Sonoma, California, born and raised. Before the ceramics in the garbage. and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. Yet her lifelong struggle with Crohns Disease and her pioneering work with cancer patients shaped her view of life. 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 . Copyright 2023, And if youd like to know more, we suggest you start with our. A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Yeah. And poetry, and poetry. I was actually born at home. 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. I write the year, seems like a year you Limn: Yeah. I feel like theres a level in which it offers us a place to be that feels closer to who we are, because there is always that interesting moment where someone asks you who you are, even just the simple question of, How are you? If we really took a minute to think about it, How am I? 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. We say, Oh, I want to write about this flower. And then we say, Why this flower? How to make that more vibrant, more visible, and more defining? I write. to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward And I was in the backyard by myself, as many of us were by ourselves. 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. Limn: [laughs] Yeah. So it felt right to listen again to one of our most beloved shows of this post-2020 world. And if I had to condense you as a poet into a couple of words, I actually think youre about and these are words you use also wholeness and balance. And its true. 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. 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. But its about more than that. 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. The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. Thats so wonderful. Tippett: And you have said that you fell in love with poetry in high school. 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. Want to Read. Henno Road, creek just below, It is still the river. I think there are things we all learned also. And I wonder if you think about your teenage self, who fell in love with poetry. I was like, Oh. Then I came downstairs and I was like, Lucas, Im never going to get to be Poet Laureate.. Sometimes its just staring out the window. I would say about 50 percent, maybe 60 percent of it was written during the pandemic. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. 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