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. like something almost worth living for. Find more of her poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry. Yeah, it was completely unnatural. [laughter] Sometimes its just staring out the window. Musings and tools to take into your week. Limn: Yeah. people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds. This poem is featured in Ada's On Being conversation with Krista, "To Be Made Whole.". How to make that more vibrant, more visible, and more defining? Limn: Yeah, I had a moment where I hadnt realized how delighted I was to go about my world without my body. A friend The thesis has never been exile. And its true. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Its almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue. Once it has been witnessed 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. How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. Tippett: 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. And to not have that bifurcated for a moment. Is where that poem came from. But the song didnt mean anything, just a call How am I? You could really go to some deep places if you really interrogated the self. And so I gave up on it. and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, by even the ageless woods, the shortgrass plains, the Red River Gorge, the fistful of land left. 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. about being fully human this adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and wondrous. April 4, 2008. hoping our team wins. The conversation of this hour always rises as an early experience that imprinted everything that came after at On Being. Ada Limn is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. So Sundays were a different kind of practice, if you will, a different kind of observation. of age. Limn: 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. 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 definitely a writing prompt too, right? 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. 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 now Ill just say it again: they are the publisher of the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. When you open the page, theres already silence. like water, elemental, and best when its humbled, 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. Tippett: I love that. Ada Limn. Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned. Shes written six books of poetry, most recently, The Hurting Kind. 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. I was so fascinated when I read the earlier poem. Theres this poem which Ive never heard anybody ask you to read called Where the Circles Overlap, . A friend, lover, come back to the five-and-dime. . Tippett: And when you say I know one shouldnt take poems apart like this, but The thesis is the river. What does that mean? From Feb 2: three months of soaring conversations to live and grow with with an eye towards emergence. And then in this moment it was we cared for each other by being apart. Yeah. Tippett: You hosted this, The Slowdown podcast, this great poetry podcast for a while and. I am asking you to touch me. In me. I really love . But the song didnt mean anything, just a call, to the field, something to get through before, the pummeling of youth. And I want you to read it. 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. between us there was the road You will hear the voices of wise and graceful lives of former guests, and of listeners from far-flung places. Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned. 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. Youre going to be like, huh. Or youll just be like, That makes total sense to me., At the top of the mountain Tippett: To be made whole/ by being not a witness,/ but witnessed. Can you say a little bit about that? Yeah. 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. But I love it. Was there a religious or spiritual background in your childhood there, however you would describe that now? 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. All came, and still comes, from the natural world. Limn: Oh, definitely. 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 thought, How am I right now at this moment? Okay. 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. 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. And that was in shorter supply than one would think. And when people describe you as a poet, theyll talk about things about intimacy and emotional sincerity and your observations of the natural world. [Music: Seven League Boots by Zo Keating]. 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. And it felt like this is the language of reciprocity. and the one that is so relieved to finally be home. And you could so a lot of what he knew in Spanish and remembered in Spanish were songs. And I think for all of us, kind of mark this, which is important. And thats also not the religious association with Sunday, right? 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. Wisdom Practices and Digital Retreats (Coming in 2023). Then three years later, Tippett left American Public Media to create her own production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which has aligned with WNYC/New York Public Radio to distribute the show to affiliates nationwide. It feels important to me, right now, because I want to talk to you about this a little bit, what weve been through. Sometimes it feels like language and poetry, I often start with sounds. 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. But you said I dont know, I just happened to be I saw you again today. the ground and the feast is where I live now. Woodworking and the meaning of life. And he had a little cage, I would make sure he was And he would get bundled up and carried from house to house. We touch each other. And place is always place. Youll see why in a minute. Sometimes it sounds, sometimes its image, sometimes its a note from a friend with the word lover. She loves human beings. 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. I just saw her. And so thats really a lot of how I was raised. I wonder if Im here again today or in a new place. And that was really essential to my practice of who I was as a creative person in the middle of such an enormous tragedy. now even when it is ordinary. We touch each other. Ive been reading Ada Limn for years, and was so happy when she was named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. The Pause is our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. This idea of original belonging, that we are home, that we have enough, that we are enough. 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 if you cant have hope, I think we need a little awe, or a little wonder, or at least a little curiosity. And shes animated by questions emerging from those loves and from the science she does which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. Good, good. 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