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Joy Harjo is the celebrated author of nine books of poetry and the memoir Crazy Brave. She edited the collection of Native nations poetry, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. And her most recent album is I Pray for My Enemies. Joy Harjo was born and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, six generations ago, her ancestors were forcibly relocated from their homelands in Alabama. [ So I actually started reading Crazy Brave a few months ago, during the pandemic. And I kind of read it like poetry. I read it a little bit at a time and savored it a bit at a time, which wa...

Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow brought his groundbreaking ideas, which he pioneered with his late friend and fellow psychologist Amos Tversky, into mainstream culture — and now he’s about to release a new book. He was born in Tel Aviv but spent his childhood in Paris, where he and his family became caught up in Nazi-occupied France. He is a self-described and well-documented constant worrier, and his continuous questioning of himself and others is also a source of his creativity, warmth, and humility. I experienced this when he first sat down — a little late — for ...

On the Town: OKC Memorial, NPR lead month of remembrance By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record April 8, 2021 Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum kicks off its month of remembrance Friday with a special virtual discussion with NPR’s Krista Tippett from noon to 1 p.m. about having better conversations. Following this month’s theme of “Sacred Ground to Find Common Ground,” the conversation will feature Tippett, founder and CEO of the On Being Project and an Oklahoma native; Kari Watkins, the memorial’s executive director; and John Kennedy,...

Transcript Krista Tippett, host: “Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say, in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room, and you are not alone across time.” He is activating an old alchemy for our young century. Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings, and callings that we aren’t able to muster in our official places now. Performances of his public health project, Theater of War, have been some of the some of the most generative — and repeatedly, surpri...

Transcript Krista Tippett, host: It’s pretty intriguing to follow Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems,” whether we know it or not. What she commends as a simple practice of writing explains the surprising power of what I know best from a long life of journaling. The act of writing things down just helps. As she says, it can be a tool to survive in hard times, or to anchor our days, but also to get into a more gracious community with ourselves — or rather, with all of the selves that live on in each of us at any given moment: the “child self, your older...