It’s with open hands that we welcome the stranger, open up to the light of a new day. With open hands we praise in church, we offer help in community, we wash off the day and welcome a new one.
family
View
- List View
- Standard View
- Grid View
120 Results
Going through hardships gives us strength in the places we’d never thought to develop, spaces we didn’t know we’d occupy, room to reach beyond ourselves, toward others who are where we had been.
A conversation among a group of fathers opens up space for Ben Katt to reflect on what his vasectomy has meant for him — and mark the ceremonial transition, as one era of fatherhood ends and another begins.
Kao Kalia Yang shares a memory of the days when her family was new to America, and the ways they found sustenance from the unfamiliar lands around them.
From a young age, writer Anya Jaremko-Greenwold imagined herself inside paintings: “It didn’t so much matter whether the artist had invited any visitors — if no human figures stalked the work, so much the better. I’d have the place to myself.” On art appreciation as a worldview and an inheritance — in all of its beauty and consequence.
Kao Kalia Yang reflects on how caring for her younger siblings has taught her about "life's possibilities and the different pathways that people can take into the road of tomorrow."
After a life of straying from the spiritual background of his childhood, David Baker finds himself wandering back into questions and mystery.
Kao Kalia Yang on miscarriage and the fragility of motherhood and its tremendous strength, how it lives beyond life and death.
My mother was Moxie for only a decade, but I wish I had known her then. Her happiness and sense of possibility must have been magnetic. Despite the war and all the absences and hardships she endured, those were her golden years.
How do we make sense of our life and work in the context of the generations that come before us? An interview with Terese Marie Mailhot about her debut memoir, "Heart Berries."
Suffering is universal. It’s time I grew wiser about how to sit alongside it.
Even the most soul-affirming work can leave us depleted and lost. Making a commitment to step away from the daily grind and listen to our "inefficiency experts" — can sustain us in the work we do and the lives we lead.
“Still, America is the place where we are hoping to cultivate life — even as death visits us in life and in dreams.”
In a plot of grass, behind a bar on Payne, right off Maryland Avenue on the east side of St. Paul there was once a blue house that I loved.
On sisterhood and the layers that make up shared wombs, lineages, cultures, and histories.
An opportunity to embrace not just life as it is, but also life as it could be — if not in this life, then in the next.
On reckoning with an unknown family past, searching for truth, and the stories we imagine to understand the ones we love.
What if we trusted what our bodies tell us about our experiences? On the frustrating gap between our emotional intuition and the reality that we perceive.
Previous
The Pause
Join our constellation of listening and living.
The Pause is our seasonal Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter. Replenishment and invigoration in your inbox. Wisdom to take into your week. And when you sign up, you’ll receive ongoing, advance invitations and news on all things On Being.
Search results for “”
View
- List View
- Standard View
- Grid View
Filters
Listen
Read