Through December and into the turn of the year, the on-bearing blog is offering a lovely

series of seasonal reflections.

Check in often to enjoy a nuanced and eclectic range of wisdom from our contributing writers,

and we're collecting them all at onbearing.org slash seasonal reflections.

On-Being is brought to you by the John Templeton Foundation.

The Templeton Foundation supports academic research and civil dialogue on the deepest,

whose perplexing questions facing humankind?

Who are we?

Why are we here?

And where are we going?

To learn more, please visit Templeton.org.

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Stay curious.

In our show, we often find ourselves talking to poets and writers about meaning and mystery

and how intertwined these things are with both art and faith.

So it seemed natural to team up with selected shorts, which nurtures an important truth.

We need stories.

As part of a live selected short-s evening at Symphony Space in New York, we were joined

by Claire Danes, Ellen Burston, Julie White, and now poet laureate Tracy K. Smith.

I'm Krista Tippett, and this is on Being.

We need words that shimmer and enliven, and wake us up, and help us heal.

Our first story by the imaginative tender and funny writer Amy Bender involves healing.

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