The Weekly Pause

Roshi Joan Halifax shares an excerpt from her book Standing on the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet.

Akwasi Aidoo shares two of his poems: "The Vital Signs Lay Hidden" and "Spread Our Wings.”

Valarie Kaur shares an excerpt from her book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love.

Marilyn Nelson shares two of her poems: "Bali Hai Calls Mama" and “Bird-Feeder."

Mark Nepo shares his poem "Earth Prayer.”

Naomi Shihab Nye shares two poems: "Pine Cones" and "Find Your Path.”

Pádraig Ó Tuama explores Rafiq Kathwari's poem "On Receiving Father at JFK after his Long Flight from Kashmir.”

Juliane Okot Bitek shares her poem grass1 woven2 into3 language4.

Parker J. Palmer shares readings from his personal pandemic journal and his book On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old.

Kim Stafford explores the poem "The Way It Is," written by his father, William Stafford.

Krista Tippett shares a passage from the chapter entitled "Flesh" in her book Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.

The final session of The Weekly Pause in which John Paul shares a practice emergent from Pablo Neruda's The Book of Questions as well as his translation of Eduardo Galeano's poem “Nosotros.”