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Wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and poetry. Conversations to live by. With a 20-year archive featuring luminaries like Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Desmond Tutu, each episode brings a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hosted by Krista Tippett, Learn more about the On Being Project’s work in the world at onbeing.org.
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June 28, 2024
<p>An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-end-of-poetry/">The End of Poetry</a>” — and hear her read more of her work in the <i>On Being</i> episode, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/ada-limon-to-be-made-whole/">To Be Made Whole</a>.”</p><p>Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, including <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-carrying-poems-ada-limon/8997510"><i>The Carrying</i></a>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/bright-dead-things-poems-ada-limon/8996367"><i>Bright Dead Things</i></a>, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent volume is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hurting-kind-ada-limon/17385091"><i>The Hurting Kind</i></a>. As poet laureate, she edited the collection <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-are-here-poetry-in-the-natural-world-ada-limon/20274526"><i>You Are Here</i></a>, part of her signature project focusing on how poetry can connect us to the natural world. She is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow, a former host of the poetry podcast <a href="https://www.slowdownshow.org/"><i>The Slowdown</i></a>, and an instructor in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina.</p>
June 27, 2024
<p>We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something expected. And yet advances in technology have made it ever harder for physicians and patients to make a call to stop fighting death — often at the expense of the quality of this last time of life. Meanwhile, there is a new longevity industry which resists the very notion of decline, much less finitude. </p><p>Fascinatingly, the simple question which transformed the surgeon Atul Gawande’s life and practice of medicine is this: What does a good day look like? As he has come to see, standing reverently before our mortality is an exercise in more intricately inhabiting why we want to be alive. This conversation evokes both grief and hope, sadness at so many deaths — including our species-level losses to Covid — that have not allowed for this measure of care. Yet it also includes very actionable encouragement towards the agency that is there to claim in our mortal odysseys ahead.</p><p>Atul Gawande's writing for <i>The New Yorker</i> and his books have been read by millions, most famously <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/atul-gawande-on-mortality-and-meaning/#media"><i>Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End</i></a>. He currently serves as Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He previously practiced general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and was a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.</p><p><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/atul-gawande-on-mortality-and-meaning/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.</p><p>This show originally aired in October 2017.</p><p>______</p><p><a href="https://bit.ly/3V9mD57">Sign up for The Pause</a> — a Saturday morning companion newsletter to the <i>On Being</i> podcast season, and our mailing list for news and invitations all year round. Be the first to know as tickets go on sale for the <i>On Being</i> 2025 live national conversation tour.</p>
June 21, 2024
<p>Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “<a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/ars-poetica-100-i-believe/">Ars Poetica #100: I Believe</a>” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/elizabeth-alexander-words-that-shimmer/">Words That Shimmer</a>.”</p><p>Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. Since 2018, she has served as president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and is Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets. Her books include <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-sublime-poems-elizabeth-alexander/8223891" target="_blank"><i>American Sublime</i></a><i>, </i>a 2006<i> </i>finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the memoir, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-light-of-the-world-a-memoir-elizabeth-alexander/7370146?ean=9781455599868" target="_blank"><i>The Light of the World</i></a><i>, </i>a 2016 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Her most recent book is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-trayvon-generation-elizabeth-alexander/17395572?ean=9781538737897" target="_blank"><i>The Trayvon Generation</i></a>.</p>
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