The family therapist who created the field of “ambiguous loss” with practical wisdom on how to live with what’s lost. I read every single chapter of the Bible. Program & Operations Manager, Civil Conversations and Social Healing. JG: When they said there’s nothing they could do about it, I thought, No, no. Plants were reduced to object. It’s very holistic, everything from restoring fertility to the overused land, permaculture, agroforestry, reforestation—. Kimmerer: They were. Tippett: One way you’ve said it is that that science was asking different questions, and you had other questions, other language, and other protocol that came from indigenous culture. He enjoys practicing and teaching meditation, running in the woods, craft beer with friends, and karaoke with strangers. Founder and CEO, The On Being Project; Host, On Being and Becoming Wise; Curator, The Civil Conversations Project. Abigail Washburn is a celebrated banjo player and singer, both in English and Chinese. I’d love to hear something about this word — what it actually means, in what contexts can it be helpful, in what contexts can it be used as a tool to silence anger.”. A literary thinker with a “telescopic view of time”; an astrophysicist with an eye to “cultural evolution towards good.” What unfolds between these two is joyous, dynamic, and unexpectedly vulnerable — rich with cosmic imagining, civic pondering, and even some fresh definitions of the soul. It’s, I think, very, very exciting to think about these ways of being which happen on completely different scales, and so exciting to think about what we might learn from them. Science is apt to scoff at a story; they are apt to scoff at anecdotes. Stay up to date with the latest trends that matter to you most. It feels so wrong to say that. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, John Henry Greenwood. (She always checked out seven books, the maximum allowed.). By 1986, I had my PhD, I’d built up a research station, and, best of all, I could spend hours alone in the rainforest. Arlie Hochschild — The Deep Stories of Our Time. We can sit down, far away from an intended victim, and in cold blood plan out the most brutal forms of torture. Just imagine, twelve people in one tiny house. For Perel, eroticism is a key ingredient to life — and it’s more than just a description of sexuality. He was wise about how the civil rights vision might speak to 21st-century realities. So I saw a hen go into a henhouse, where they slept at night, and the nest boxes were round the edge, and I thought, She must be going to lay an egg. As the executive director of Community & Design, she leads content and engagement strategy across mediums, including this website and social media.