npr • on being :: Joanna Macy

ancestors' wisdom ~ show up and love this world ~ solidarity

npr • on being :: Gordon Hempton

endangered silence ~ it's not the absence of sound ~ it's absence of NOISE 
meet gordon hempton ~ acoustic ecologist ~ silence activist
tonal quality ~ i never REALLY listened ~ think-tank of the soul
poetics of space ~ professional listener ~ last quiet place
don't anticipate ~ there's no purpose but great joy ~ silence feeds our soul 
 just take it ALL in ~ who we are is what we hear ~ one square inch dot org

npr • on being :: Christian Wiman

imagination ~ keeps opening me up to ~ eccentric heavens

npr • on being :: Mario Livio

passion for science ~ our expanding universe ~ core sense of wonder

yet more tears

I wonder again
just when the crying might stop.
Water the deserts.
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