Listening to one of my favorite podcasts, On Being, by the brilliant Krista Tippett; she is in conversation with poets Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson. They go into how storytelling and the power of story gets trivialized, especially with the booming podcast industry. Krista read a piece of Ó Tuama's writing which resonated deeply within me; I feel it as a call to all of us, especially those who write, to serve the recovery of our world. We need imagination to see and accept being together where we are now.
These are the kinds of things we need for the tired spaces of our world. This is the way we need to move forward in a world that is so interested in being comforted by the damp blanket of bad stories. We need stories of belonging that move us towards each other, not from each other; ways of being human that open up the possibilities of being alive together; ways of navigating our differences that deepen our curiosity, that deepen our friendship, that deepen our capacity to disagree, that deepen the argument of being alive. This is what we need, this is what will save us, this is the work of peace. This is the work of imagination.
The episode is available here https://onbeing.org/programs/padraig-o-tuama-and-marilyn-nelson-a-new-imagination-of-prayer/
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