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A Permeable Life Poems & Essays

Carrie Newcomer

“A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays is Carrie Newcomer’s first book, and it’s a cause for celebration. For over two decades, Carrie has gathered a legion of fans who know and love her work as a mindful, soulful singer-songwriter. In this book she reveals herself to be a first-class poet and essayist a...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

It was mentioned as a book of poetry and essays that accompanies one of Carrie Newcomer's albums of the same name. The book was discussed in relation to her creative process and spiritual practice.

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You know, the first time you've published a collection of poetry. I really love these lines from this poem. Why we are here? Maybe this is why we are here to rub shoulders and play cards, to be a plac...

— Episode: [Unedited] Carrie Newcomer with Krista T...

Episode: [Unedited] Carrie Newcomer with Krista Tippett

It was mentioned as a book of poetry and essays that accompanies one of Carrie Newcomer's albums of the same name. The book was discussed in relation to her creative process and spiritual practice.

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You know, the first time you've published a collection of poetry. I really love these lines from this poem. Why we are here? Maybe this is why we are here to rub shoulders and play cards, to be a place to launch and a place to land, to murmur in the phone, late at night, and to say, this I love and this I saw.

Three gratitudes. Now and it's a wonderful poem but I also just find this idea so useful. I want to start doing this myself and it is how it starts. Every night before I go to sleep, I say out loud. Three things that I am grateful for.

Every night before I go to sleep, I say out loud three things that I'm grateful for. All the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It's a small practice in humble and yet I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life.

Episode: [Unedited] Carrie Newcomer with Krista Tippett

It was mentioned that this book is a collection of poetry and essays, accompanying a similarly titled album. The book's themes were discussed in relation to the singer-songwriter's creative process and spiritual practice.

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I think that love for people, that love for our stories. It's been very motivating for me.

I think there's a longing out there for that kind of acknowledgement. That our lives, our daily lives, are... They're wondrous and they're valuable and they're honorable.

There's one of your poems in this collection of poetry, which I think is your first... You know, the first time you've published a collection of poetry.

Maybe this is why we are here to rub shoulders and play cards, to be a place to launch and a place to land, to murmur in the phone, late at night, and to say, this I love and this I saw.

Every night before I go to sleep, I say out loud three things that I'm grateful for. All the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life.

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