Love Us — An Invitation

Dear Friends, I write this from the TED conference in Vancouver, where I’ll be speaking — briefly, in TED fashion! — about the generative narrative of our time and living the questions and calling. These, of course, are ways of seeing and arts of living that have emerged as a harvest of 20 years of … Continue reading Love Us — An Invitation

A Season of Emergence

Listen here on Apple or Spotify.  Dear friends, I am back from my summer of pause. What a joy that while I was gone, so many new people have entered this space. I’m returning from a few months of deep rest and unexpected creativity, filling me with great energy for the time ahead. To … Continue reading A Season of Emergence

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Artist Residency – Melody Joy Overstreet

To view and download Reverberations in its entirety, please visit reciprocalfield.com/reverberations.   Artist Reflection Through this time, I have had moments of stillness that feel akin to a river that runs clear. Moments to listen and dwell in intimate presence with the kindred world. From these moments of clarity, words and stories emerged. I felt … Continue reading Artist Residency – Melody Joy Overstreet

Artist Residency – Kah Yangni

  Artist Reflection Background of the piece I work as an illustrator, mostly making movement art: art that has to do with the political movements of our time. I use to focus on positivity a lot; in my experience, when you’re trying to help people feel their power and get activated, positive, bright imagery works. … Continue reading Artist Residency – Kah Yangni

Artist Residency – Giizhigad (Christy B.)

  Artist Reflection Indigenous people all over this beautiful water earth have been rising up on behalf of our more-than-human kin. Communities fighting for the rights of water, against pipelines, pollution, and the intertwined struggles of our women and gender-expansive relatives going missing and being murdered as the land is being assaulted. Institutions and people … Continue reading Artist Residency – Giizhigad (Christy B.)

Artist Residency — Madeleine Jubilee Saito

Artist Reflection The background of this piece Healing the climate crisis, and learning to be resilient in its impacts, is the work of our lifetimes. My proposal for this residency was to create a meditative poem-comic designed for people who are just waking to the reality of the climate crisis: to hold space for mourning … Continue reading Artist Residency — Madeleine Jubilee Saito

Artist Residency – Xiaolu Wang

    If you look deeply into this flower, you see a cloud, because you know that if there is no cloud there will be no rain, and this flower cannot manifest itself. So looking in the flower you see an element you don’t call flower. But if you remove the cloud from the flower, … Continue reading Artist Residency – Xiaolu Wang

Natural World Sound Meditation

Step away from the noise of the day and into this sonic pilgrimage through the natural world. Notice how this 12-minute meditation refreshes your day and primes you for a deeper presence with our planetary companions. This meditation is featured in “A Wild Love for the World,” a collection designed to accompany the exploration of … Continue reading Natural World Sound Meditation

Reimagining Richmond

By Michael H. Smith I’m attending a conference in Washington, D.C and it’s finally lunch break. I’ve been inside one room all morning and this break is my first opportunity to grab a bite to eat and hopefully, sit near a window with some sun. Conference attendees are milling about, and as most breaks during … Continue reading Reimagining Richmond

A Letter from Krista to our Listeners

Dear Friends, I have news to share. In short, The On Being Project is expanding its imprint, and the On Being show is evolving with it… It has been over two decades, spanning unimaginable arcs of happening, since I proposed what felt to many like an improbable undertaking. Could we pick up the big questions … Continue reading A Letter from Krista to our Listeners

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan

In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Dr. 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 Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your pandemic-beleaguered body, to “blanket it with … Continue reading Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan

Pádraig’s Bread Recipe

  6oz (175g) wholemeal flour 2oz (50g) plain flour 2oz (50g) pinhead oatmeal* (called Steelcut oats) 1oz (25g) wheatgerm* 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda  Half teaspoon salt 1 large egg 10 fl.oz (275ml) buttermilk (buttermilk is either a/ milk that has gone off or b/ milk  that’s had an acid added to it; I use … Continue reading Pádraig’s Bread Recipe

Meet Lucero Torres

Each of the poems included in the third season of Poetry Unbound are accompanied by photographs from Seattle-based photographer, Lucero Torres. Her photography is influenced by her experience growing up between two cultures, Mexican and American. What themes or guiding ideas helped shape the work as a whole? What did you keep in the back … Continue reading Meet Lucero Torres

Meet Grace J. Kim

For each episode of the final season of This Movie Changed Me, Grace J. Kim created a piece of art that honored both the movie and guests. Grace is a digital illustrator whose art shows the present and the everyday through a therapeutic lens – serene and utopic. She has worked with The New Yorker, … Continue reading Meet Grace J. Kim

Ornithologist Drew Lanham reads a passage from ‘The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature’

Krista’s conversation with him is our episode: ‘I Worship Every Bird that I See.’ Drew Lanham: “If teaching is preaching, I’ve become a warmer, gentler pastor, more like the clergy at my mother’s church. Maybe it’s appropriate that these years have given me new spiritual release, too. I’ve settled into a comfortable place with the … Continue reading Ornithologist Drew Lanham reads a passage from ‘The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature’

Katherine May reads an excerpt from ‘Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times’

Listen to Krista’s full conversation with Katherine May in the On Being episode “How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes.”  Katherine May: “A surprising cluster of novels and fairytales are set in the snow. Our knowledge of winter is a fragment of childhood, almost innate. All the careful preparations that animals make to endure the cold, foodless months; hibernation and migration, … Continue reading Katherine May reads an excerpt from ‘Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times’