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I'm Elise Hugh.

It's Ted Talks Daily.

Today, we have a talk to help make sense of the multiple cascading crises we faced over

the past few years.

In her talk from Ted 2023, DeepThinker Christa Tippet processes the experience of the global

pandemic and offers reflections on what it means to be human.

And if you want to hear more from Christa, you can listen to her podcast on Being with Christa Tippet.

Here is one way to begin to talk about what the pandemic, the post 2020 world, began to set in motion.

All together for a time, we felt for the ground beneath our feet.

We remembered that the ground beneath our feet is never as solid as we believe it to be.

We remembered that civilization revolves around something so tender as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies.

We softened.

Casms became ununseeable between the ways we've been living and our deepest longings for all of our children and the highest potentials for human flourishing.

So how to step into what we have been given to see, how we have been given to learn and to grow.

I've been looking back across my 20 years of listening to the world and being in a radio and podcast conversation with wise and graceful lives.

And I want to share with you three arts of living that have persistently emerged, callings.

Each of them carries practices towards what it might mean for each of us to participate as we move forward in the remaking of this world.

The first is to see the generative story, the generative narrative of our time.

We are fluent in and very familiar with the narrative of catastrophe and dysfunction and disarray.

And that is real, but it's not the whole story of us.

There is also an abundant reality of things going right at any given time of learning and growth that are happening of evolution and breakthrough.

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