[Unedited] Katherine May with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing in of the light — these have deep psychological as much as physical reality. This is “wintering,” as the English writer Katherine May illuminates in her beautiful, meditative book of that title — at once a season of the natural world, a respite our bodies require, and a state of mind. Krista first spoke with Katherine in midwinter 2020, and their conversation continues to offer a helpful container for our pandemic time: as one vast, extended, communal experience of wintering. As 2021 draws to a close — still with so much to metabolize and to carry, with an aching need for replenishment — Katherine May opens up exactly what so many have needed to hear, but haven’t known how to name.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.8	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.8	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:25.3	Next, my unedited conversation with writer Catherine May on Wintering, a season in
0:32.0	nature, but also a state of mind and a season in life.
0:36.5	There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:41.4	Hello, everyone.
0:43.1	Hi, hi, hi.
0:46.1	So, Catherine, I hear you.
0:51.2	Welcome.
0:52.2	Hi, good.
0:53.2	Hi, thank you for having me.
0:54.2	It's very exciting.
0:55.2	I have to say to you and everybody else, we have a little wintering situation going
1:00.7	on in this impromptu basement studio we created in 2020 because I have a very cold basement.
1:10.5	And suddenly, so anyway, I have a blanket with me.
1:14.7	Gosh, is that cold?
1:16.7	Wow.
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