[Unedited] John O'Donohue with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Can We Go?
i was thinking, actually, of my mother. And i subsequently dedicated the poem to her. I am the poem tuckit's impulse, i suppose, is every poem as from a moment. If you're e from a farming background, and you're working, if you get off balance, then everything comes on top of you. Soe, the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble. That's where it began. Then i thought of the earth restoring the balance, and then the invocations through the different sensualities of color and spirit, and just blessing the person. In the celtic tradition, there is a huge tradition of blessing.
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