[Unedited] Kate Braestrup with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2012

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of human experience when lives alter unexpectedly — where loss, disaster, decency and beauty intertwine. Hear her wise and unusual take on life and death, lost and found. See more at onbeing.org/program/presence-wild/144

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0:00.0	This is On Being's Unheard Cut. I'm Krista Tippett. You're listening to my
0:04.0	unedited conversation with Kate Braistrup. She's a chaplain to Game Wardens in
0:08.6	Maine's Parks and Forests. I spoke with her on June 10th, 2008, from the studios
0:13.9	of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was in a private recording studio in Portland, Maine.
0:19.4	This interview is included in our show Presents in the Wild. Download the MP3 of the
0:24.5	Produced Show at onbearing.org.
0:27.6	Go ahead and throw those right on. I'm going to move this mic down here.
0:33.1	Pretty much get it right in front of you.
0:41.1	Too many water, right? Is that me breathing?
0:43.7	Yeah. Hello? Oh, no, that's, that's Krista. You're hearing me breathing.
0:48.9	Oh, good. Yeah. That's a good sign. Is that Kate? Okay.
0:52.6	Yes, it is. Hi. It's nice to meet you, so to speak.
0:59.1	Yeah. Sorry, you can hear me breathing. Oh, that's okay. That's all right.
1:03.8	No, it's kind of nice. I'm hearing an echo, which I think maybe
1:08.9	that a door is open. Okay. He just closed it, so.
1:13.5	All right. I'm still hearing an echo. They're just, they're just setting up.
1:18.3	It's probably a volume setting. Oh, okay. I've loved reading your book.
1:22.5	Oh, good. Oh, good. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm not going to talk a minute because
1:28.4	my voice is echoing back at me, but, um, yeah. Why don't you tell me something
1:32.6	mundane, like what you had for lunch? I had a tofu burrito. Oh, my gosh.
1:39.7	Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. It's not something more interesting.
1:47.0	Oh, no, it's interesting. Or more appetizing, maybe.
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