Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy
In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation tha...
13 Kesä 202459min
Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity
In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise...
6 Kesä 20241h 16min
Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan
In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being’s 2021 Midwinter Gat...
31 Touko 202411min
Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems
The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which...
30 Touko 20241h 1min
“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham
We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. Drew Lanham to offer some poetry at a live On Being...
24 Touko 202414min
Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt)
Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coer...
23 Touko 20241h 15min
New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition
A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offerin...
21 Touko 202411min
Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To
There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance ...
16 Touko 20241h 2min
