Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
David Hassler - Leaping thought, authoring a life, and a spirit of passionate inquiry
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Ryan McGranaghan
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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Poetry comes up so often in my conversations these days. Our society in crisis seems to be desperate for it, without being able to name that desperation until a poem calls it out of us. For years, award-winning Poet David Hassler has been defining and redefining how poetry enters and moves people and communities.
Show Notes:
- Jane Hirshfield (04:30)
- Poets for Science (04:50)
- Francis Weller - how we tend the dead is as important as how we tend the living (09:30)
- Prayer wheels (14:00)
- Buddhist principles of Right Absorption and Right Understanding (17:20)
- Maggie Anderson (21:00)
- Krista Tippet - poetry is the human capacity to articulate truth at the edges of what words can touch (22:30)
- Poems always acknowledge the limits of what can be said
- Traveling Stanzas (23:10)
- Robert Bly - metaphor is how you say something true about a complicated thing (24:00)
- Donald Hall The Unsayable Said (24:30)
- The art of gathering (27:40)
- Maj Ragain - poetry is the means by which a place comes to know itself (30:00)
- Dear Vaccine (33:20)
- Future of social media (35:10)
- William Stafford - poetry is the kind of thing that you have to see out of the corner of your eye and it will disappear without favor (37:00)
- Richard Feynman's Ode to Wonder (39:00)
- Healing the Heart of Democracyby Parker J Palmer (42:00)
- Dear Ukraine (48:20)
- Marge Piercy (50:00)
- Pursuing a question (51:40)
- Lightning round (53:00)
- Book: New Self, New Worldby Philip Shepherd
- Passion: Dancing (Teju Cole - sitting in the dark waiting for something to happen)
- Heart sing: Staging Dear Vaccine
- Screwed up: Salacious poetry for kindergarteners
- Find David online:
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