Krista Tippett models a Fireside Chat

Let it move you to your greatness

Here’s something especially wonderful that if I ran the world would be a must-see.

My comment on TED’s YouTube post:

“This is the best TED Talk ever. That's for content and for the extraordinary speaker Krista Tippett is. Everyone should hear this. It's a call to our human beingness that rarely is made. Get ourselves uplifted and we will uplift the world.”

A picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s the idea with this video as an example of what many people could do. I’ve written about the idea of masses of people doing Fireside Chats reminiscent of Roosevelt uniting the country and calling us to our best. If people were flooding social media, like the Ice Bucket Challenge that was everywhere as it raised millions for ALS research, we’d be filling the air with what could lead to finding ourselves in a different reality. This is one item we-the-people can do, on a list I’ve been compiling that I hope will become public conversation. I need some clout behind this to make it a real campaign!

With her groundbreaking "On Being" podcast, Krista Tippett takes up the ancient, animating questions for 21st-century life: What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other?...The invitation is to live into the possibility of wholeness, orienting together away from what’s death dealing toward what’s life giving.

A puzzling thing is that there are no other comments besides mine on TED’s posting of this video and the talk was given in April. It has 324,139 Views and it has 9.7K Likes, but how can it be no one else is moved to sing its praises? Your thoughts? I’ve added it to my YouTube playlist of very special videos that can inspire a new understanding: Thought Shapers making sense of these times. 

“Across my life of conversation I have seen that wisdom and wholeness emerge in moments like this — when human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay: power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, beauty and brokenness, mystery and conviction, calm and fierceness, mine and yours.” - Krista Tippett

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