We think were divided by issues, arguing about conflicting facts. the ground and the feast is where I live now. But I think the biggest thing for me is to begin with silence. Limn: Yeah. How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. red helmet, I rode And its continual and that it hits you sometimes. This is not a problem. 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. No, really I was. Its got breath, its got all those spaces. Join our weekly ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Thats such a wonderful question. and I never knew survival I have, before, been, tricked into believing Page 40. And then what we find in the second poem is a kind of evolution. Limn: [laughs] Yeah. not forgetting and star bodies and frozen birds, enough of the will to go on and not go on or how, a certain light does a certain thing, enough, of the kneeling and the rising and the looking. And we were given to remember that civilization is built on something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies. Tippett: Were back at the natural world of metaphors and belonging. And also Im so happy to be together with you in the old-fashioned flesh, which we no longer take for granted. Limn: Yes. The fear response, the stress response, it had so many other kinds of ripple effects that were so perplexing. 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 were you writing. We prioritize busyness. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. We journalists, she wrote, "can summon outrage in five words or Dont get me wrong, I do, like the flag, how it undulates in the wind. Im like, Yes. like water, elemental, and best when its humbled, But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. Definitely. And honestly, this feels to me like if I were teaching a college class, I would have somebody read this poem and say, Discuss.. Find Krista Tippett's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. 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. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. The Fetzer Institute, supporting a movement of organizations applying spiritual solutions to societys toughest problems. Tippett: Would you read this poem, The End of Poetry, which I feel speaks to that a bit. I mean, thats how we read. I dont know why this, but this. And I remember reading it was Elizabeth Bishops. and hand, the space between. Tippett: Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. My familys all in California. 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. 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. Oh, thank you. the nectar lovers, and we I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. I could. Only my head is for you. the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. We endeavor to make goodness and complexity riveting. And this particular poem was written after the 2017 fires in my home valley of Sonoma. , the galley in the mail from Milkweed. 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.. several years later and a changed world later. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. days a little hazy with fever and waiting I think thats something we didnt know how to talk about. Thank you all for coming. 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. 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. tags: curiosity , listening , oral-history , vulnerability. 25 Sep. 2014. 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. with their fish tanks or eight-tracks or Musings and tools to take into your week. 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 desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. 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. And whats good for my body and my mental health. All of those things. [laughter] But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. Limn: I think the failure of language is what really draws me to poetry in general. So, On Preparing the Body for a Reopened World.. 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. Join our constellation of listening and living. And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1,000 people, packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. Sometimes youre, and so much of its. It comes back to these questions of like, Why do I get to be lucky in this way? Krista Tippett is Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis 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. Its the thing that keeps us alive. The bright side is not talked about. We live in a world in love with the form of words that is an opinion and the way with words that is an argument. We were so focused on survival and illness and vaccines and bad news. Lean Spirituality. What were talking about and not when we talk about mental health. Jen Bailey, and so many of you. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. 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. This might be hard for some of you right here. And Im not sure Ive had a conversation across all these years that was a more unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter laughter of delight, and of blessed relief. What. Thats page 95. This is amazing. Before the apple tree. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). And I remember sitting on my sofa where I spent an inordinate amount of time, and reading it. Deeper truths and larger stories of ourselves as societies, as a planet, as humans, that at once complicate and enliven our capacity to live with dignity and joy and wholeness. We want to orient towards that possibility. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. Want to Read. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. I love that you do this. Yeah, Ive got a lot of feelings moving through me. But I want you to read it second, because what I found in. creeks, two highways, two stepparents 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. Tippett: Okay. chaotic track. Before I bury him, I snap a photo and beg God, which I dont think were going to get to talk about today. no hot gates, no house decayed. Perhaps, has an unsung third stanza, something brutal, snaking underneath us as we absentmindly sing, the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands, hoping our team wins. Find them at fetzer.org. And so, its so hard to speak of, to honor, to mark in this culture. We have been in the sun. Its the . It wasnt functional in a way. And thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. Limn: 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. This is amazing. body. What is the thesis word or the wind? My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. No, really I was. Page 40. cigarette smoke or expertise in recipes or, reading skills. But I love it. 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. 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. But I think you are a prodigy for growing older and wiser. Page 87. And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. My mother says, Oh yeah, you say that now.. And it is definitely wine country and all of the things that go along with that. The original idea, when we say like our, thesis statement, or even when we say like. Easy light storms in through the window, soft, edges of the world, smudged by mist, a squirrels, nest rigged high in the maple. Tippett: [laughs] Yeah. scratched and stopped to the original Alex Cochran, Deseret News. would happen if we decided to survive more? Thats the work of poetry in general, right? and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. Yeah. In fact, my mother is and was an atheist. There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies that Kimberley Wilson takes us on this hour. On Being with Krista Tippett is about focusing on the immensity of our lives. 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. And it is definitely wine country and all of the things that go along with that. But let me say, I was taken, back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy, but I was loved each place. on all sides with want. Helping to build a more just, equitable and connected America one creative act at a time. the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business. And I think about that all the time. We touch each other. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. back and forth on Sundays and it was not easy Limn: Yeah. I mean, thats how we read. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. 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. 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? Limn: Yeah. I just saw her. the ground and the feast is where I live now. But its about more than that. 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. And I feel like poetry makes the world for that experience, as opposed to: Im fine., Tippett: [laughs] Yeah. And were at a new place, but we have to carry and process that. Tippett: I dont expect you to have the page number memorized. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. 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. We are fluent in the story of our time marked by catastrophe and dysfunction. Okay, Im going to give you some choices. 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 . enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy 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. now even when it is ordinary. Tippett: as you said, to give instruction or answers, where to give answers would be to disrespect the gravity of the questions. [laughter]. Tippett: I guess maybe you had to quit doing that since you had this new job. I spoke with Ada Limn at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis. Why did I never see it for what it was: For me, I have pain, so Ive moved through the body in pain. "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 . I just set my wash settings to who Id like to be in 2023: Casual, Warm, Normal., Limn: Yeah, that was true. This is a moving and edifying conversation that is also, not surprisingly, a lot of fun. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. Yeah. Yeah, there wasnt a religious practice. Tippett: No, theres so much to enjoy. And so I gave up on it. Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. So I think thats where, for me, I found any sort of sense of spirituality or belonging. Just uncertainty is so hard on our bodies. Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. And its always an interesting question because I feel like my process changes and I change. 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