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\nAs Maya Stein writes in her beautiful poem this week, our lives aren't 'a stage rehearsal where you skip the high notes to save your voice'. So this week we wonder together about what it is that has us hold back, and hold others back, from bringing ourselves fully into our lives... 'the songs we could be singing while the light takes its own sweet time to change'.
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about, in part, an aspect of diversity and inclusion: can we welcome the 'otherness' of others and the 'otherness' of the parts of ourselves that have not yet had a voice? 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. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week, written by poet Maya Rachel Stein:
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\npress play\n\nListen, friend. This isn\u2019t a poker game, some thick-smoked room to keep your cards\nhidden until the final ante. This isn\u2019t the stage rehearsal where you skip the high notes\nto save your voice, or those practice runs in the parking lot with a map of orange cones\nguiding you into reverse and parallel. Yes, the tide will keep going out and back like\nclockwork. We will always look to measure and mete out our efforts in incremental intervals, testing the recipe of our purpose, licking our fingers clean. We will want\nto glimpse what is too much or not enough without the sacrifice of embarrassment or,\nworse, the fallen souffl\xe9 of failure. But my goodness, the songs we could be singing\nwhile the light takes its own sweet time to change. The dust we could be kicking up\n\nas the dance finds us on inexpert legs, spilling out the door and into the waiting streets.
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\nMaya Stein
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\nPhoto by Jackson David on Unsplash\n