Tracy K. Smith's newest libretto is for THE RIGHTEOUS with composer Gergory Spears which will make its world premiere on July 13, 2024 at the Santa Fe Opera.
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Hear an excerpt of the libretto from THE RIGHTEOUS read by librettist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
THE RIGHTEOUS is an original story that explores the intersection between genuine faith and political power in the 1980s American Southwest. Along the way, the characters’ sacred love for God becomes entwined with the complicated realities of their romantic lives.
Kevin Newbury directs this world premiere production, which runs for six performances from July 13 through August 13, only at the #SantaFeOpera!
Tickets are on sale now at https://www.santafeopera.org/whats-on/the-righteous-2024/
🎥 Video by kelechi agwuncha for the Santa Fe Opera
Manoush Zomorodi is the host of NPR's BodyElectric podcast
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Have you listened to @npr’s #bodyelectric podcast yet?
Last year, NPR and I announced the start of a special 6-part podcast series to investigate how our bodies are adapting to our technology. (Spoiler, we’re on season 2 now!) We had nearly 20,000 listeners join a study with the Columbia University Medical Center — and we’ve learned A LOT about the importance of breaking away from our screens and digital devices.
I think it’s a pretty groundbreaking show, but don’t take my word for it!
Here’s what some of our listeners have had to say.
David Sedaris is the author of ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY and RuPaul loves the book!
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My go-to travel book is July’s book pick on @allstorabooks! 🎙️
Me Talk Pretty One Day allows us to travel through David Sedaris’s consciousness as he explores the absurdity of life and never fails to make me cackle.
Plus, as a special gift this month, all book club subscribers will get a FREE TOTE BAG with their book! So what are you waiting for? Join the club—I’ll see you there. ✨
Neil Gaiman's new children’s book, WHAT YOU NEED TO BE WARM helps support the work of the UNHCR. Sales of every copy of the book – including all author proceeds – help support the work of UNHCR.
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For #WorldRefugeeDay, I’m reading this passage from my book ‘What You Need to Be Warm’ with @refugees.
When I think of Words of Welcome, I think of the warmth and comfort that come from knowing you have a place where you belong, are safe, and are valued. It’s about creating spaces — both physical and emotional — where refugees are greeted with kindness, understanding, and support.
And today more than ever, I want to express my solidarity #WithRefugees around the world.
Let’s create a world where refugees are always welcome.
https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/our-partners/prominent-supporters/what-you-need-to-be-warm
Jad Abumrad and an experiement in allergy cure
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Suppose you have a voice that gives you an allergic reaction and that voice is everywhere. What do you do? I’ve found wavetable synthesis to be a good form of Audio Therapy. Import the voice into phase plant, slice the voice into hundreds of audio snapshots, grab only the little bits you like, manipulate them and in that way turn the words into something more pleasant. My own private method of alchemically turning stupid into beautiful. Here’s my experiment from today.
Naomi Shihab Nye's poem KINDNESS as read by Emma Thompson
This is an older post, but Kindness is still relevant.
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The ever glorious and wonderful Emma Thompson reads “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye. Emma would like to dedicate this poem to our future selves, who we will be after this pandemic. What a glorious sentiment that is, filled to the brim with hope. What we need, what we always need, most.
Here is the prescription as written in @thepoetrypharmacy @thepoetryremedy.
Condition: Need for Kindness
There are times in life when everything we thought we could rely on fails, and everything we have wanted for ourselves dissolves in front of us. There are times, also, when we are confronted with the same suffering in others. Faced with the sheer scale of the misery of the world, it can be agonizingly difficult to engage meaningfully- and all too tempting simply to harden our hearts against it.
Yet, as Naomi Shihab Nye tells us in this inspiring poem, those moments- hard as they are- are also an opportunity, if we will only dare to open our hearts. For it is only by reckoning with true sorrow and desolation that we can come to understand exactly how necessary, how life-preserving, kindess really is, and then move towards it. First, however, we must learn true empathy. ‘Kindness’, after all, is just another word for love- and once we’ve acknowledged that the pain of others is exactly as searing as our own, what can we do but love them? What can we do but try to ease their burden? As Nye so wonderfully suggests, nothing else makes sense.
This is a challenge. Even at our lowest points, we must not ignore the suffering of others: we must not allow the solipsism of personal misery to cut us off from the great cloth of human feeling. Yet it is also a consolation: if we reject that isolation, we can take comfort in knowing that whatever loss lays us bare will also bring us into the presence of kindness.
By looking pain in the eye, we can
Miranda July's first solo museum exhibition titled MIRANDA JULY: NEW SOCIETY presented by Fondazione Prada is at the Milan Osservatorio March 7, 2024 – October 14, 2024. The show spans three decades of her work, from the early 1990s until the present.
Her new novel is ALL FOURS.
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“A poster to be ripped/Ripping” is the newest piece featured in the #MirandaJuly #NewSociety exhibition currently on view at #Osservatorio
A diptych that includes a poster designed for Printed Matter, a nonprofit art bookstore in New York City, and a video documenting three people performing the poster’s instructions
Visit #FondazionePrada in #Milan and watch the video to discover more
a project curated by @mia.locks
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Video @beatperego
https://www.fondazioneprada.org/project/miranda-july-new-society/?lang=en
Colm Tóibín's new book is LONG ISLAND, a sequel to BROOKLYN. In addition to being chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, Long Island received star reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist.
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The happiest of publication days to Long Island by Colm Tóibín.
Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.
And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?
Available from all good bookshops and online now.
https://www.barclayagency.com/speakers/colm-toibin
Robert M. Sapolsky and highlights from episode 12 of Father-Offspring Interviews
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HIGHLIGHTS from Episode 12 of Father-Offspring Interviews. View the full video on YouTube, linked in the bio. This video touches on the “us” vs “them” mindset, Taylor Swift in a Zombie Apocalypse, beauty in nature, and more.
Continue submitting your questions for future videos at the link provided in the bio and story highlight.
#robertsapolsky #sapolsky #freewill #determined #stanford #usvsthem #zombieapocalypse #awe #beauty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yWTFagQQI
Priya Krishna's new book is a globe-trotting cookbook for children titled Priya’s Kitchen Adventures
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Calling all onigiri people!!!!!! @meena came over, and we, two grown adults, made the onigiri from Priya’s Kitchen Adventures. Yes this is a cookbook for kids but also adults who dislike chopping and fussy stuff. 🍙🍙🍙
https://www.barclayagency.com/speakers/priya-krishna
@amortowles is the author of A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW which is now an eight episode series starring Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead on Paramount+/Showtime.
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead breathes life into the willowy Anna Urbanova in #AGentlemanInMoscow.
Apollonia Poilâne has been described as a “fierce defender of a magical tradition and also a brave innovator for a new era.”
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a few things about @poilane
—there are a several poilâne bakeries in paris. the one in the video is the original bakery on 8 rue du cherche-midi in the 6eme. it’s the main location where i have always gone to and where one of their bake houses is (below the bakery)
—they have a location in london
—my favorite things i’ve been getting over the years
pain de mie
miche poilâne (country loaf)
tarte aux pommes
les biscuits sablés
—the miche poilâne (pain de campagne) only contains stone-ground flours, guérande salt, water, and natural leavening and it’s truly my favorite bread to buy in paris from here
—a kind thank you to @apollonia_poilane for letting me visit the bake house and learn more about their bread traditions. i had read so much about it for years 🍞
Manoush Zomorodi has a quick lesson about stress and your body!
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Here’s a quick anatomy lesson (and extra motivation) to blast your core once in a while with @NPR’s #BodyElectric.
Credits: @nickolaihammar • Nickolai Hammar/@NPR
#tedradiohour #techhealth #podcasts
Anne Lamott's new book is SOMEHOW.
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As a woman of faith and cranky optimism, I am usually afraid of only a dozen or so things at any given time, which is a major improvement since childhood. I was the single most scared child on Earth in the 1950s. For instance, I was habitually afraid of being murdered while I slept, so I’d practice looking dead. Then the murderer would peek in my room and think, Hmmm, no one to kill in here; the little girl is already dead.
I don’t do that anymore (very often).
Now I am mostly afraid of my son and grandchild dying before me, beside which all other fears pale. I do worry about falling and breaking my hip. Gravity is a killer. I am, as we speak, on a long airplane flight, hearing a loud mechanical rattle, such as what a wing might make as it works itself off toward freedom. Also, I fear inheriting my mother’s Alzheimer’s, my father’s brain cancer, snakes, the election and the guy behind me coughing.
Maybe worst of all, I have to get my driver’s license renewed fairly soon, which means I have to take the written test. I would rather go to my periodontist and let her do the deep gum planing that she seems to enjoy. Even five years ago when I last went to the DMV to renew my license, I was full of dithery fear, bumbling around like Mr. Magoo on crack cocaine looking for the right counter. To my astonishment, I passed the test.
But now, only five years later, I have to do it again. It’s so wrong.
I notice a difference now: Back then, fear felt like a swamp inside, with Burmese pythons swimming around, patiently, so I sloshed through the DMV. With age, it is more shadowy, a sneaky menace. Ahh — gotcha! — and I’ve learned to quiet it one fright at a time.
🔗 Visit the link in the bio of @PostOpinions to read more.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/06/fear-humiliation-hope-life-lessons/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_opinions&crl8_i
Terry Gross and Tonya Mosely are always ready for Truth or Dare.
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Of course these two are always gonna choose Truth!
Thank you @passeroscoffee for letting us hang out ☕️
https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/
