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\nHow about we find a way to live without permanently being annoyed that things aren't just as we'd like them? Might that not be a path to some joy? Could we give up the way we exhaust ourselves (and often others!) by our attempts to push life around, to control it, to have things just our way? A conversation about creativity, relationship, what happens when we let ourselves fall into life, and giving up trying to herd cats, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\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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\n\n\nOur source for this week is written by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, from her book 'Naked for Tea', and brought to us by Justin.
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\nPerhaps it would eventually erode, but...
\nRosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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\nThat rock that we
\nhave been pushing up
\nthe hill\u2014that one
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\nthat keeps rolling back down
\nand we keep pushing
\nback up\u2014what if
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\nwe stopped? We are not
\nSisyphus. This rock
\nis not a punishment.
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\nIt\u2019s something we\u2019ve chosen
\nto push. Who knows why.
\nI look at all the names
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\nwe once carved into
\nits sedimentary sides.
\nHow important
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\nI thought they were,
\nthose names. How
\nI\u2019ve clung to labels,
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\nwho\u2019s right, who\u2019s wrong,
\nhow I\u2019ve cared about
\nwho\u2019s pushed harder
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\nand who\u2019s been slack.
\nNow all I want
\nis to let the rock
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\nroll back to where it belongs,
\nwhich is wherever it lands,
\nand you and I could,
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\nimagine!, walk unencumbered,
\nall the way to the top and
\nwalk and walk and never stop
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\nexcept to discover what
\nour hands might do
\nif for once they were no longer
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\npushing.
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