Born of Wonder

In this episode, we explore the haunting, rich, complex poetry of Sylvia Plath. Katie shares some of her personal history with Plath and why she continues to be a source of inspiration and fascination. Also discussions of memento mori, shared mortality, and how to remember and pray for the Dead during the month of October. 

www.bornofwonder.com

Instagram: @born.of.wonder

 

"Of Life After Death:" At Last, a Plath Biography Worthy of its Subject

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/of-life-after-death-sylvia-plath-biography 

 

Offering Mass for Sylvia Plath and The Beauty of Allhallowtide

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/mass-for-sylvia-plath-and-allhallowtide 

 

Plath Reading Lady Lazarus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq2LOhaf97o&t=3s 

 

Plath Reading Daddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM&t=85s 

 

Plath Reading Tulips 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNXOA9CzAQ 

 

Plath Reading Nick and the Candlestick 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJsJBm413U 

 

Also referenced - 

 

"Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath" by Heather Clark

 

"Birthday Letters" by Ted Hughes

 

Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM 

On this episode, Katie has an honest and self reflective discussion about the role technology plays in our lives. With wisdom from Martin Luther King Jr. to Thoreau to Wendell Berry... We'll learn about a man who signed off for good - could we do the same? Should we? What are the good things about technology? How can we maintain our sense of wonder and awe in an age of distraction? 

 

www.bornofwonder.com

 

Music: Blue Dot Sessions

 

"The Dangerous Digitization of Our Lives"

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/the-dangerous-digitization-of-our-lives 

 

Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it

Mark Boyle

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/19/life-without-technology-rejecting-technology 

 

"Mad Farmer's Liberation Front" 

https://cals.arizona.edu/~steidl/Liberation.html 

 

Dvorak's New World Symphony - played in the episode by the Berlin Philharmonic

 

Full symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_nHgbhYRg 

On this episode of Born of Wonder, Katie has a far reaching discussion on everything from Ecclesiastes to Tesseracts and Black Holes, the possibility of Time Travel to what it means to be "timeless" while living in Time and Monks living in "Byzantine Time"... Also the Liturgy, Doctor Who, Interstellar, time management with a baby and more! 

 

www.bornofwonder.com

 

Music: Blue Dot Sessions

 

The Byrds "Turn Turn Turn"

Hans Zimmer - Interstellar

"The Charleston" 

 

Mt Athos "60 minutes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxkSp_jmd4&list=PLOFZoffZBuUareYRUTYX_BJ25jJ4cR0nW 

 

Recommendations -

 

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirBWk-qd9A&t=2s 

 

BBC Earth Podcast 

https://www.bbcearth.com/podcast 

How can we embrace a Hobbit like life of coziness, bravery, love, and simple gifts? Celebrating Hobbit Day all year round on Born of Wonder. Lots of Lord of the Rings inspiration on this episode.

 

more at: www.bornofwonder.com 

 

"Celebrating Hobbit Day and Tolkien Week"

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/celebrating-hobbit-day-and-tolkien-week 

 

Yo Yo Ma "Simple Gifts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQXvbjfAGE 

 

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September is traditionally a month of sorrows - specifically, the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary. On this episode we turn inward, celebrate the dying leaves and colder temperatures, the new rhythms of Fall and the beauty of this pensive time of year. 

 

More at: www.bornofwonder.com

 

"The Sorrows of Autumn"

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/the-sorrows-of-autumn

 

"The Seven Sorrows" Ted Hughes

https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5321/the-seven-sorrows/ 

 

"Autumn and the Return of Rhythm"

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/autumn-and-the-return-of-rhythm  

 

Max Richter - Autumn 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia9JqBHnj_I 

 

Peat Dance - Danish String Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlsVuhD0AaQ 

In this episode, Katie explores the importance of watching and reading stories that DON'T end happily ever after. From Annie Hall to Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Mermaid" to Greta Gerwig's Little Women and Out of Africa... A broad conversation on how there are many TYPES of happy endings that we can embrace, both in art and in our own lives.

 

More at: www.bornofwonder.com 

 

Recommendation:

Out of Africa 

 

Burrowshire Podcast - Theology and Disney 

https://burrowshirepodcast.com/disney-and-theology/ 

 

"I want to own my story:" Greta Gerwig's Little Women is a Triumph

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/i-want-to-own-my-own-book-greta-gerwigs-little-women-is-a-triumph 

 

 

On this episode we explore the works of G.K. Chesterton, in particular his concept of 'patriotism' in the context of the universe - the idea of being 'a cosmic patriot.' How can we embrace Chesterton's wonder, awe, and childlike trust in the world? 

 

www.bornofwonder.com

 

Recommendations:

Sing the Liturgy Podcast

https://singthehours.org 

Irish and Celtic Music Podcast

https://www.celticmusicpodcast.com 

 

 

On this episode Katie and her husband Chris dive into the poetry of John Berryman, discussing his famous Dream Songs as well as his beautiful late poetry (11 Addresses to the Lord). 

 

"Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake,

inimitable contriver,

endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon,

thank you for such as it is my gift.

 

I have made up a morning prayer to you

containing with precision everything that most matters.

‘According to Thy will’ the thing begins.

It took me off & on two days. It does not aim at eloquence.

 

You have come to my rescue again & again

in my impassable, sometimes despairing years.

You have allowed my brilliant friends to destroy themselves

and I am still here, severely damaged, but functioning.

 

Unknowable, as I am unknown to my guinea pigs:

how can I ‘love’ you?

I only as far as gratitude & awe

confidently & absolutely go."

 

More at: www.bornofwonder.com 

 

11 Addresses to the Lord: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48948/eleven-addresses-to-the-lord 

 

Tonight by Sibylle Baier 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_F0mPq7ec 

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

On this episode Katie explores the importance of living out a cohesive narrative - how stories transform our lives and give them their deepest meaning. She shares how Jo March changed the way she viewed her own life and the story she was living. What is the soundtrack of your life? Who are the characters? "Be the heroine of your own life, not the victim." Some inspiration and conviction to live out beautiful stories. More at: www.bornofwonder.com Music: Blue Dot Sessions Phillip Levine on Lowell and Berryman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CLUCuX90w 

To Autumn by John Keatshttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/to-autumn 
"Living the Story of Your Life" https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/living-the-story-of-your-life 
Richter Recomposed: Autumn 1

In this first episode of Season 2, Katie explores the concept of Sleep - the association with dreams, visions, thin places, and death. Learn more at www.bornofwonder.com

**Please forgive some of the audio hum in this episode. 

 

Background Music: Blue Dot Sessions

 

Recommendations: 

 

"The Sleeping Giant" 

Inishtooskert 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/190347521721699278/ 

 

Molly Ban

Alison Krauss and the Cheiftans

The Chieftains & Alison Krauss - Molly Ban - YouTube

 

On Fairy Stories - The Stolen Child: Fairies and Changelings 

On Fairy Stories — EP2: The Stolen Child: Fairies and Changelings