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December 10, 2020

Meet Myrna Keliher

Written by Lilian Vo

If you have been following this season of Poetry Unbound, you may have noticed the individual prints that accompany each poem. Each one is designed from handset metal type and printed by artist Myrna Keliher. In 2012, she founded Expedition Press, a…

June 3, 2020

Race and Healing: A Body Practice

Written by On Being Editors

Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” “Your body — all of our bodies — are where changing the status quo must begin.” Find a quiet place and…

April 8, 2020

An ‘Unfolding Poem’ for the Moment We’re In

Written by John Paul Lederach

xiii. march fourteen, ‘twenty they say we’re at war i think we’re falling in love with the human race Memoriale: Haiku And The Crowned Newness On December 31, 2019, Chinese officials alerted the World Health Organization to an unknown form of pneumonia…

February 25, 2020

Response to Investigation of Jean Vanier

Written by On Being Editors

Editor’s note: In February 2020, L’Arche International released the results of an independent investigation that it commissioned into Jean Vanier, who died in 2019. The investigation determined that the L’Arche founder, Catholic philosopher and humanitarian engaged in manipulative sexual relationships with at least six women from 1970-2005. None…

Krista Tippett stands in front of an amusement park in Germany in the 1980s.

November 8, 2019

What the Berlin Wall and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Taught Me About Time

Written by Krista Tippett

A conversation about Margaret Atwood's “Handmaid’s Tale” captures the wonder of witnessing historic change in the moment.

July 25, 2019

Loitering

Written by Ross Gay

https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Loitering-for-CD.mp3 I’m sitting at a café in Detroit where in the door window is the sign with the commands NO SOLICITING NO LOITERING stacked like an anvil. I have a fiscal relationship with this establishment, which I developed by buying a coffee, and which makes…

July 25, 2019

Name: Kayte Young; Phone Number: 555-867-5309

Written by Ross Gay

https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/555-867-5309-for-CD.mp3 Today I was sitting down to a meeting with my friends Dave and Kayte to discuss the excerpt of Kayte’s graphic novel our little press is going to publish. When Kayte pulled the box from her bag that contains all her beautifully drawn pages, her…

July 25, 2019

“Joy Is Such a Human Madness”

Written by Ross Gay

https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Joy-Is-Such-a-Human-Madness-for-CD.mp3 Editor’s note: The audio above begins midway through the essay. So writes Zadie Smith toward the end of her beautiful essay “Joy.” She gets there by explaining that she has an almost constitutional proclivity toward being pleased. She is a delight to cook for, she suggests, because your…

June 5, 2019

Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time

Written by Krista Tippett

“The life-giving, lifelong work of being ever more deeply human is work you do in service to our beautiful, hurting world.” Krista Tippett offers three callings for the class of 2019 at Middlebury College.

May 24, 2019

Life Isn’t a Straight Line — How to Chart Your Own ‘River of Life’

Written by Kristin Lin

This exercise is designed to help you reflect on your life and tell your story.

May 8, 2019

Finding Calm and Contemplation in the Classroom, with Poetry

Written by Kristin Lin

“Poetry,” says David Whyte, “is language against which you have no defenses.” Poetry can also help us find our center after a chaotic moment — like recess. That’s the kind of space poetry provided for fourth- and fifth-grade students at The Juniper School in Durango, Colorado, last month. Every day,…

May 2, 2019

Why We Should Talk More About Death (and How to Get Started)

Written by Kristin Lin

Why do we find it so difficult to talk about death? For as universal as death is, Americans seem to hesitate to acknowledge its place in our lives. In a national survey conducted by The Conversation Project last year, 92 percent of respondents said they think it’s important to have…

January 28, 2019

A New Chapter for The Civil Conversations Project

Written by Lucas Johnson

A letter from new Executive Director Lucas Johnson.

January 27, 2019

Love and Fire

Written by Apricot Irving

What is it that we are to do with grief? We can turn it inward, making prisoners of our own bodies. We can turn it against others. I want to believe that we can also be transformed by loss.

January 27, 2019

Being Lonely

Written by Kao Kalia Yang

What does it mean to remain faithful to our shyness? When feeling at home in ourselves is different from feeling at home in the world.

January 27, 2019

Christian, Conservative, Treehugger

Written by John Murdock

Exhausted, we all sat down for dinner at the end of a whirlwind day that had spanned two continents. Our jet-lagged group included Republican lawmakers, the chief policy voice for a major evangelical organization, and a couple of folks like me with ties to the right-leaning non-profit that had helped…

January 27, 2019

Parenting in the Aftermath of Trauma

Written by Ashley Abramson

I thought perfection was the glue of secure attachment, that rewriting the story was the hallmark of redemption. But when I stopped running from the mother I didn’t want to be — when I forgave my mother for the narrative she unknowingly authored — I could finally give my son what he needed all along: my presence.

January 27, 2019

A Way Back to the Wildness of Death

Written by Suzanne Kelly

In a culture that encourages us to be passive bystanders in our mourning, green burials present an alternative that fosters meaningful connection — to ourselves and to the earth.

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