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\nWhen life is dark or frightening, or when we feel stretched beyond our ordinary abilities, it's often our willingness to learn from others that can restore our capacity to respond. Other people, if we'll let them, can often give us the gift of another way of coming at life and, in particular, the gift of practices that can invite in us an entirely new orientation to the circumstances we find ourselves in. Can you imagine, for example, what it would be like to sing with people with whom we're in difficulty, before we tried to speak? A conversation about undoing our habits and finding ways of making light in the darkness together, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\n\n\nThis is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We\u2019re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website.
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Agenda in a time of fear: Be not afraid.
\nWhen things go wrong, do right.
\nSet out by the half-light of the seeker.
\nFor the well-lit problem begins to heal.
\nLearn tropism toward the difficult.
\nWe have not arrived to explain, but to sing.
\nYoung idealism ripens into an ethical life.
\nPrune back regret to let faith grow.
\nWhen you hit rock bottom, dig farther down.
\nGrief is the seed of singing, shame the seed of song.
\nKeep seeing what you are not saying.
\nPlunder your reticence.
\nSongbird guards a twig, its only weapon a song.
\nby Kim Stafford\n