Hello dear people, it's Krista.

With the news that On Being is coming back next week,

we are going to give you a special two month season.

We have dug deep in our archive and pulled out classic enduring conversations that hold wisdom and solace for a tumultuous now.

We're producing them anew. We're pulling in more with these questions in mind. How to stay

grounded, be at home inside ourselves, and keep courage, hope, and imagination alive. We're going to start with Kate D. Camillo with her

wisdom on how to think about and speak with children, the young people in our lives,

about how light and peril co-exist in human life

and she also speaks to the eight-year-old that's always there yearning fearful and

hopeful at the same time in each of us.

We're going to go back to Rosque, to Louise Alberto Urea, to Adrian Murray Brown.

We're going to ponder what the pandemic did to our nervous systems

that is still nowhere near metabolized in us, and also find a way to ponder our

dysregulated collective global nervous system,

how to stand with greater presence

with some kind of equanimity before that.

We also have two big new conversations for you,

one about what the natural world has to teach us

about living with trauma, about accompanying each other in making

the world anew, which we all feel called to right now.

And a conversation channeling the great Hannah Arent, a

prescient 20th century political thinker newly echoing in this young century of

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