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\nListening deeply, lovingly and fearlessly to one another is among the most nourishing and life-giving practices we humans can take up, and yet many of us have few places in our lives where we regularly do this. Perhaps that's because laying out a 'table made of listening' for one another, one that is open enough and solid enough and safe enough, calls on us to welcome parts of ourselves and others that we often push away. It turns out that the practice of listening to one another, difficult as it may be to start with, cultivates exactly the kind of welcome of ourselves that allows us to be a welcome to others. And that this is something deeply needed in the world and in our lives right now.
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\nThis episode of Turning Towards Life is a conversation about conversation, hosted as always by 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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\nOur source this week is brought to us by Justin, and is written by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer:\xa0
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\n\n\n\nSetting
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\nIn every conversation
\nthere is a table made of listening.
\nSometimes the tables are beautiful,
\nsolid, clean\u2014the kind
\nthat can support anything
\nyou put on them.
\nSometimes, they\u2019re like
\nthe tv dinner trays
\nof my childhood\u2014
\na little rickety, but they\u2019ll do
\nif what\u2019s put on them is light.
\nSometimes they\u2019re so cluttered
\nthat whatever\u2019s placed on their surface
\nis almost immediately lost.
\nLet tonight\u2019s table have a small vase of flowers
\nand a candle perhaps, nothing else.
\nMay it be small enough we might
\nsee each other\u2019s eyes, might notice
\nevery nuance of breath. Whomever
\nI am most nervous to invite,
\nmay I invite them. And though
\nthe tea is just a metaphor,
\nmay I offer. May they accept.
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\n\n\n- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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\n\n\nPhoto by Alvin Engler on Unsplash\n