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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:newsletter@onbeing.org">The On Being Project</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, December 12, 2020 6:57 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:marthamcg@suddenlink.net">Martha McGovern</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Considering Replenishment, Re-creation and Kinship</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=preheader><span lang=EN style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:white'>Dear Friends,  Some of us are kneeling — in respect, in defiance, in exhaustion; some of us are standing — in pride, in defiance, in dignity. Our guests and poets this week invite us all to consider our postures towards each other, in public and in private, and to consider... </span></span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#F6F6F6;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#809791;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 15.0pt 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60RfHcOdTs541wZyieeUMeuI&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=1"><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=560 height=187 style='width:5.8333in;height:1.9479in' id="_x0000_i1053" src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5f6246eb06dee32c54d1adfc/attachments/original/1539965575/email-header-image.jpg?1539965575" alt="The On Being Project"></span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;max-height:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden;visibility:hidden'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:white;display:none'>Dear Friends,  Some of us are kneeling — in respect, in defiance, in exhaustion; some of us are standing — in pride, in defiance, in dignity. Our guests and poets this week invite us all to consider our postures towards each other, in public and in private, and to consider...</span><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:white;display:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width="100%" id="_x0000_i1052" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/223/attachments/original/1200x600_NewsletterHdr-1212.jpg?1607624106"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/20201212_the_pause?e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=2#share"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#809791;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=14 height=13 style='width:.1458in;height:.1354in' id="_x0000_i1051" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/212/attachments/original/share-green.png?1601415576"></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#809791;text-decoration:none'> SHARE THIS EMAIL</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Dear Friends, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Some of us are kneeling — in respect, in defiance, in exhaustion; some of us are standing — in pride, in defiance, in dignity. Our guests and poets this week invite us all to consider our postures towards each other, in public and in private, and to consider how our practice deepens life, deepens rest, deepens dignity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>For years, I’ve run groups where people from different points of view speak to each other about matters of serious social, religious or political difference. People come together. We make careful facilitation space. We talk to each other. It’s usually polite enough at the start, and at some point, someone says “Look, seriously?” and then things become less polite, more real and risky. Often, someone says something like: While you’re defending your <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>opinion</span></em>, you’re devaluing my <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>life</span></em>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>These conversations invite people to extend a hand of collegiality when they feel like their hands are already burnt. These conversations ask much of people from whom too much has already been asked. There is a chosen compromise in such conversations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>And in the midst of such compromises, participants in these conversations regularly speak about how necessary they are. John Paul Lederach reminds us regularly that the moral imagination can be embodied during unexpected gatherings of people in curious relationships of care engaging in creativity and risk. I think it goes without saying that such gatherings are exhausting. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60c63p2pHPt21LFIO19y_-gn1XVrkfmepznvTzhDVurm5fA9w1sLOdseZCDz2HzoFQSRgsBRPYU3pB4NCZUu73NTAon5_a_PYt-eLHF6iIGW4&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=3"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Krista’s conversation with the Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry and Dr. Russell Moore</span></a> — president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention — is one of those necessary conversations. Two male Christian leaders who share a love of tradition, texts and testimonies, who interpret and practice in very different ways. “Learning to live in relationship with difference is called maturity” Bishop Curry says, with the Jewish prophet Micah’s words “Act justly; love mercy, walk humbly with your God” as his guide. For Dr. Moore, multiple postures are also needed. He describes holding conviction alongside kindness, not so as to evaporate differences, but practice them well. Mere “civility” he considers too low a bar. His retelling of the gospel parable of the Good Samaritan is a joyous combination of wisdom, self-reflection, and scholarship. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Krista describes this week’s guests as “bridge people.” And she notes that not everyone is called to be a bridge person. And — importantly — this week’s show highlights how exhausting this year has felt for many in positions of community or faith leadership.When our public conversations exhaust us and the differences between us remain irreconcilable, how can we nevertheless claim replenishment, re-creation and even a sense of kinship? Sometimes that’s through poetry, as Dr. Moore discovers in a love of Wendell Berry with an unlikely friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Both of our poems from <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Poetry Unbound</span></em> this week speak about marriage, a significant point of disagreement between our <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>On Being</span></em> guests. R.A. Villanueva’s poem “<a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60ZXlLWcrS-5BMz7BfbaWJYBRZSld43jSWVU9iSHAVc2sit6hyh1Y5lazYukmIGhz6w&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=4"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Life Drawing</span></a>” is narrated by a poet made uncomfortable by his wife’s sketching of a nude male model in her art class. The poet is uncomfortable, comparing his body with that of the model. He asks permission to write about his wife’s body — perhaps as some kind of attempt to seek solace in his artistic skill — she says yes, but only if she can sketch him naked. It’s a tender poem about all the vulnerabilities and invitations to reciprocality of close relationships. In Ellen Bass’ poem “<a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60aRFIAKm1UKp9tZ_fKHEf8_-jBZ37uU0DiLBiv1y-eVrMwUZFiD6BJC8WY9coVxWJX_cbOpI2aszy6VB0Kr7uQI&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=5"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh</span></a>,” she searches for a term for her female partner. When you’re arguing with insurance people or dropping off dry cleaning you can’t very well talk about “the love of my life” she says. Written in the time before legal or widespread acceptance of same-sex marriage this poem tracks the connection between public policy and private lives. Wife is the word she’s looking for, but when she was writing, it wasn’t available. Ellen Bass’ poem is deliciously witty — my colleagues had a laugh at hearing me say sweet patootie — but she’s also speaking about impact. R.A. Villanueva is kneeling before the sacred space of his marriage. From the sacred space of her marriage, Ellen Bass is standing for a language that will validate her life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>And a final note this week: as 2020 draws to a close, On Being is preparing a Gathering, and shareable offerings of care, replenishment, and renewal </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>in all of our digital/social channels — for the kneeling in exhaustion; for the standing in dignity; for the many losses we scarcely know what to do with; for the expectant waiting that is the spirit of Advent; for pondering how we want to live once the virus releases us back to each other. We’ll draw on voices and moments from the past year that can accompany all of that. Then at 4 p.m. CST on Monday, Dec. 21, the winter solstice, Krista and Lucas will gather us on Zoom and Facebook Live to accompany each other with all that we’re carrying out of this year and into the next.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Please come and bring others! As a Pause subscriber, we’ll also give you another heads up with links and places to follow in coming days.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>So — *see* you soon, and beir bua, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 style='width:1.0416in;height:1.0416in' id="_x0000_i1050" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/210/attachments/original/300x300-padraig-bio-image.png?1600883891"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'> <br><br>Pádraig Ó Tuama<br>host of <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Poetry Unbound</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width=708 height=1 style='width:7.375in;height:.0104in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.png@01D6D070.0DE256A0"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/20201212_the_pause?e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=6#share"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white;background:#3F99CF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=14 height=14 style='width:.1458in;height:.1458in' id="_x0000_i1048" src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5ef2e06934297225de1d6e2e/attachments/original/1592975579/share_white_48x.png?1592975579"></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white;background:#3F99CF;text-decoration:none'>SHARE THIS EMAIL</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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pan><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Poetry Film: This is what was bequeathed us</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width=708 height=1 style='width:7.375in;height:.0104in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_13" src="cid:image001.png@01D6D070.0DE256A0"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='color:black'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRaPO9GYkIC67aMvVz8hafCLllGhY_LdVD8FzzjViJgBxg&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=18"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width="100%" id="_x0000_i1040" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/223/attachments/original/TaianLuxGregoryOrr.png?1607623351"></span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Watch this short film by Taian Lu featuring Gregory Orr’s poem, “<a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRaPO9GYkIC67aMvVz8hafCLllGhY_LdVD8FzzjViJgBxg&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=19"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>This is what was bequeathed us</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width=708 height=1 style='width:7.375in;height:.0104in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_15" src="cid:image001.png@01D6D070.0DE256A0"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>A Q&A With Artist Myrna Keliher <o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width=708 height=1 style='width:7.375in;height:.0104in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_16" src="cid:image001.png@01D6D070.0DE256A0"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='color:black'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60RJ7kKAk-CdBf0Nyl3AcM9aVBHXUMdb3bjeXOlN0H01n&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=20"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width="100%" id="_x0000_i1037" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/223/attachments/original/newsletter-myrna-keliher.png?1607624127"></span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>If you have been following this season of <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Poetry Unbound</span></em>, you may have noticed the individual prints that accompany each poem. Each one is designed from handset metal type and printed by artist Myrna Keliher. We were curious about what draws her to the letterpress art form and where she finds inspiration, so we asked! Read the full interview <a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60RJ7kKAk-CdBf0Nyl3AcM9aVBHXUMdb3bjeXOlN0H01n&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201212_the_pause&n=21"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><img border=0 width=708 height=1 style='width:7.375in;height:.0104in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_18" src="cid:image001.png@01D6D070.0DE256A0"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Supporting On Being's Work</span></str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