Twenty Reasons for Being

A pastiche poem of tribute to the past and resolve for the possible.

Twenty years ago today, Krista Tippett birthed the life-force that is On Being. It began as a small local public radio show and ended up as a beloved podcast making lives all over the world infinitely more livable and luminous. President Barack Obama gave her the National Humanities Medal for it. Millions gave her their hearts as she gave us the universe of hers.

It is a landmark moment for On Being as it shape-shifts into it...