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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This includes a thoughtful discussion of the impact of suicides and the societal need to value friendships and perseverance as a way to prevent them. Say yes to living . . .</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The poem “All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs” by Christian Wiman is also thoughtful.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As the days shorten, here is a source of light that can sustain us.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martha</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 19, 2020 6:57 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:marthamcg@suddenlink.net">Martha McGovern</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Turning to life, again and again</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, I moved to Dublin when I was 18. Fresh faced, far too interested in religion, I was the embodiment of the insight behind the Biblical proverb “Too much zeal is not good.” I was in the chapel every day and everyday, in that chapel, I’d bump into Mary.... </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=20201219_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_i1054" 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, I moved to Dublin when I was 18. Fresh faced, far too interested in religion, I was the embodiment of the insight behind the Biblical proverb “Too much zeal is not good.” I was in the chapel every day and everyday, in that chapel, I’d bump into Mary....</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_i1053" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/225/attachments/original/Special_Newsletter_Assets_12192020-header.png?1608322160"></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/20201219_the_pause?e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_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_i1052" 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'>I moved to Dublin when I was 18. Fresh faced, far too interested in religion, I was the embodiment of the insight behind the Biblical proverb “Too much zeal is not good.” I was in the chapel every day and everyday, in that chapel, I’d bump into Mary. She was in her early 70s; she’d worked hard all her tough life. She’d always stop for a quick word. <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>How are you, me old flower?</span></em> she’d say, and then she’d say, <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>I’m praying for you; for your conversion.</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'>Initially I was aghast. I was 18. I was working for the church. I was already converted. <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'>I saw her most days for five years and she said it every day. I had hundreds of assurances of her prayers for my conversion. As time went by, and my zeal wisened a little, I knew I needed every conversion she prayed for: conversion to courage; conversion to change; conversion to challenge; conversion to safety; conversion to life. <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'>Conversion — if it means anything — means more than one thing. It is a process, a conversion towards the good. It is an embrace of the possibility of change and future. It is a difficult companion. It is a rewarding companion. It calls us again and again throughout a life. <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'>This week we re-air <a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60YS2oA2o6Dp-G0DxlcxpU1CUa5Ln42kkqOdPXcSy_-y_jXxW7Gwl4pjRxgnEnkgh_STlgjLu2iJeN9bLyuwznoH6bai8yjRv7a02dQUgWfJR&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=3"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Krista’s 2015 conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht</span></a>, a conversation that considers the act of ending a life that is suicide. Hecht is a historian, a poet, and a philosopher, and her book <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Stay </span></em>considers arguments against suicide from her scholarship and her personal experience. For her, no single moment of despair is important enough to rob a person — and their loved ones — of future moments of love and life. She is not religious, she does not make arguments against suicide for any argument of God, rather she makes an argument against suicide because moments of devastation are, in her estimation, not trustable enough to give a final call on a life, even a difficult one. <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 many, 2020 has been a heavy, heavy year. We know this. We are choosing to air this episode this week, as we enter into the shortest days of the winter season in order to amplify the call to life that echoes to us, even in bleak winters after pandemic years. Stay, Jennifer Michel Hecht urges, and we join her in this moral call towards life’s possibility, even in exhaustion; even in grief; even in isolation — we are not alone. Stay. <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'>It’s the last week in this season of <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Poetry Unbound</span></em> too (season three will start in the Spring), and our two poems for this week also hinge around serious questions of meaning being interrupted with experiences of love. In Carlos Andrés Gómez’s poem, “<a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60XgccAVxfSEhFU8lZn-dLqlmhI6XvhJ8hY-fYHJH4-bj&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=4"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Father</span></a>,” he begins by questioning the idea of a just God in light of human suffering, then he becomes a father himself. He hears a growl — not of a God, but of a child — and his own conversion unfolds in an instant. His questions about religion are not finished, rather changed, as he moves from questioning God as Father to considering himself as one. For our final poem of the season, we have Christian Wiman’s poem “<a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60Z9Oy5roBT1fs5nj9LEP5pYvEuoiSB0xtdZ5zOsh28oRTksd0XopQhPq20bwV8eiQdCa1y878YafdnRcK4Quy5ibiOCMvR9rL7vhZpMLo0KV&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=5"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs</span></a>.” In this poem, a man considers how his friends are going through changes in midlife: new diets, new relationships, new ideas, new religions; one chooses to die, one opens up to new life. And the poem wonders what all these dizzying beliefs are. But the beliefs are a distraction; none of them will save him. Over and over again in this poem we hear the word <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>friends, friends, friends. </span></em>It is a life lived in relationship with those we love that this poem honours — beliefs may help, but only to a point. Friends are the true belief in this poem. <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'>We have news about our upcoming special gathering in the P.P.S below and we’d love to see you there. As we venture into the holiday season and New Year, we want to thank you for your friendship to our program — your letters, interactions, suggestions, critiques and comments. We wish you and yours safety, life, conversation and conversion as this year closes. And we look forward to all the conversions that 2021 will bring.<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_i1051" 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'> <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'>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'>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'><br><br>P.S. — The Pause is taking a break for the next two weeks, but don’t miss next week’s show with the extraordinary voice and violin of Gaelynn Lea; and the following week’s reprisal of Krista's beloved conversation with the physicist Frank Wilczek on beauty as embedded in the very structure of life, and as a compass for truth, discovery, and meaning.<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'>P.P.S. — A reminder that our Midwinter Gathering is happening this Monday, Dec. 21, at 5 p.m. ET. 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href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60YS2oA2o6Dp-G0DxlcxpU1CUa5Ln42kkqOdPXcSy_-y_jXxW7Gwl4pjRxgnEnkgh_STlgjLu2iJeN9bLyuwznoH6bai8yjRv7a02dQUgWfJR&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=9"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>We Believe Each Other Into Being</span></a>’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>On suicide and the call to life that echoes to us even in a hard winter, in a hard year. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Listen on:</span></em><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><br></span></i><span 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src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/212/attachments/original/1500x1500_PoetryUnbound_FINAL.jpg?1601415744"></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Poetry Unbound </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Monday</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Carlos Andrés Gómez<br><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60XgccAVxfSEhFU8lZn-dLqlmhI6XvhJ8hY-fYHJH4-bj&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=14"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Father</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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 man rejects the idea of God as Father, then becomes a father and hears himself uttering a surprising, strange, and desperate prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Friday</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Christian Wiman<br><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60Z9Oy5roBT1fs5nj9LEP5pYvEuoiSB0xtdZ5zOsh28oRTksd0XopQhPq20bwV8eiQdCa1y878YafdnRcK4Quy5ibiOCMvR9rL7vhZpMLo0KV&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=15"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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 poem about friendship through changes and crises. Watching his friends’ beliefs change, the poet finds his friends worth believing in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Listen on:</span></em><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><br></span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=ShFaE4UMkbUbrBGAfRo6cWtpYpG_86vVborl4qh6VMt0_qAHdMd4CwB4tIZKrENCF3Byeh5SOy6t88CXTzo4a8e1PwXOs_cYG8gTl2V8wzA&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=16"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Apple Podcasts</span></a><br><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=ShFaE4UMkbUbrBGAfRo6cWm03yNTqtVVjrsNAbMqerNM1qtw_38lP-pYndmxUocjkti9qD7yE073j-_Y9X1OuFibyrJUKIbn9eCSj-xRo0EiTwCHwbJ3Efqc3AJOyhJQyAoewI9StJUOiWTaFBb4N9P1mwmTqfNew2X2jPrpH0k9wWTu4vdzoVDgReHuIzo1&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=17"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Google Podcasts</span></a><br><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=WdxZv57OEtmDvsx-JyIJwLmeF9Xc02lyNEb9U9pDyY2GOqR2-kHxFq1Qgh1ZwF8B93H06XbbujC1KAf1ghbs8w&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=18"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Spotify</span></a><br><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60XgccAVxfSEhFU8lZn-dLqlmhI6XvhJ8hY-fYHJH4-bj&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=19"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Our Website</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;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_12" src="cid:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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 Blessing by Pádraig Ó Tuama<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:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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'><img border=0 width="100%" id="_x0000_i1041" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/225/attachments/original/Special_Newsletter_Assets_12192020-v3.png?1608318769"></span><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_15" src="cid:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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'>Poetry Film: Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower</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_16" src="cid:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRarrTftOGfm7kgavf6NMjdp&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_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_i1038" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/225/attachments/original/Rilke.png?1608319082"></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 Matt Huynh & Mila Nery featuring Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, “<a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRarrTftOGfm7kgavf6NMjdp&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=21"><span style='color:#3F99CF'>Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower</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:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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'>Recommendations<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_19" src="cid:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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'><img border=0 width="100%" id="_x0000_i1035" src="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/onbeing/mailings/225/attachments/original/newsletter-rec-1219.jpg?1608322188"></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%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'>Watch | </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRZryXWmfFBvXr5ngufMlJLoumR6OhjmcvHKrVhYD_oibw&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=22"><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF'>Gaelynn Lea: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert</span></strong></a><br>The violinist, songwriter — and next week’s <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>On Being</span></em> guest — Gaelynn Lea won NPR’s Tiny Desk contest in 2016. Her song and performance for "Someday We'll Linger in the Sun," was selected over 6,000 other submissions. <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'>Watch | </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=lKPoTZS9b_My2NCnD6qKuIgTZxBFZI00cAiUdvITcBrTLF2jj9H7ADye2GTEylz0&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=23"><em><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF'>Brooklyn Nine-Nine</span></b></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF'>'s "Yippie Kayak"</span></strong></a><br>To get through this pandemic Christmas, my friend and I have been watching our favorite TV Christmas episodes together via Zoom. One of the absolute best on our list is <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Brooklyn Nine-Nine</span></em>'s "Yippie Kayak," a delightful tribute to Die Hard infused with jokes, holiday cheer, and wonderful Peralta/Boyle shenanigans. — <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz, executive producer</span></em><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'>Listen | </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#505054'><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=GKqXKoxzHTBdlHADEQBsXmU__PpKMKGPMxiSJNXb8_oTbQBzOsxVtvZZeLxAH3a2UduRrXc171Qpb4ICtV9D-d2i-B34oUG2dzdWKU3rbPqOwaKfrs6KeKKd0RgUvYyOtEF2Iwb7WufCvBlQvOGAkg&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20201219_the_pause&n=24"><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3F99CF'>The Poetry Exchange</span></strong></a><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></strong><b><br></b>Pádraig was welcomed to the podcast to talk about a poem that’s been a friend to him: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s “Cuimhne an Uisce” / “A Recovered Memory of Water.” <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_21" src="cid:image002.png@01D6D5E5.19B57DC0"></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'>Events<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 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