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On Being with Krista Tippett

Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind and spirit and action. And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage we’re called to, and the joy we must nurture, as life force and fuel for the work ahead. As a young woman, she left her home state of Louisiana and land to which her family belonged for generations, to go to college and become a powerful lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina made, as she has said, "a crack in the universe," she returned home to a whole new life and calling. Colette Pichon Battle is a vivid embodiment of the new forms societal shift is taking in our world — led by visionary pragmatists close to the ground, in particular places, persistently and lovingly learning and leading the way for us all.

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0:00.0

There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from.

0:07.4

On a front edge of this reality which will affect us all,

0:11.4

Kolep Pichon battle is a singular model

0:14.6

of brilliance and graciousness of mind

0:17.7

and spirit and action.

0:19.8

And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage

0:26.2

we're called to and the joy we must nurture as life force and fuel for the work ahead. As a young woman, she left her home state of Louisiana and land to which her family had belonged for generations to go to college and become a powerful lawyer in Washington, D.C.

0:46.0

Then, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina made, as she has said, a crack in the universe, she returned home to a whole new life and calling.

0:57.1

Colette Pishon Battle is a vivid embodiment of the new forms societal shift is taking in our world,

1:04.0

led by visionary pragmatists close to the ground

1:08.0

in particular places, persistently and lovingly learning and leading the way for us all.

1:17.0

I'm Krista Tippett and this is on being.

1:25.0

Colette Pichon Battle is co-founder of Taproot Earth,

1:29.0

which is influencing all the realms emerging from our ecological present,

1:34.2

including equitable disaster recovery and global migration,

1:39.0

community economic development,

1:41.0

and energy democracy. The Great Northern Festival, which brought Colette

1:46.2

and Me together with a small audience in January 2022, is actually another

1:51.6

manifestation of this,

1:53.0

a celebration of Minnesota's cold creative winters,

1:57.0

a signature season now in flux.

2:06.0

I have spent these last couple of days just really learning about you,

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