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The esteemed poet Jane Hersfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists.

She said this, It's my nature to question, to look at the opposite side.

I believe that the best writing also does this.

It tells us that where there is sorrow, there will be joy.

Where there is joy, there will be sorrow.

The acknowledgement of the fully complex scope of being is why good art thrills.

Acknowledging the fullness of things she insists is our human task.

And that's the ground I meander with Jane Hersfield in this conversation.

The fullness of things through the interplay of Zen and science, poetry and ecology in

her life and writing.

I have been given this existence these years on this earth to accept what has come into

my lifetime, wars, loves, trucks, betrayals, kindness.

I must take them.

I must find a way to live in this world.

You can't refuse it.

And along with the difficult is the radiant, the beautiful, the intimacy with which each

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