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\nLearning to live with a many-chambered heart; relating to ourselves, others and life by taking into account the astonishing richness and complexity that\u2019s always here; honouring that there\u2019s never just one story or explanation for what\u2019s happening, or what we\u2019re feeling, or what\u2019s emerging, or what\u2019s intended. And, along the way, how movies, trees, parks and people can be teachers of all of this to all of us.
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\n\n\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about learning to live in a host of stories, rather than just one, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.\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. 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:
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\nThere Are Days When
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\n\n\nThere are days when
\nI\u2019m bored rigid by my singular story.
\nI wear it like a prize or a prison.
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\n\n\nWho might this soul be if it had been sown in different soil?\xa0
\nI long to forsake my temperate fields for exotic climes;
\nof course I do.
\nBut how small a leap an opposite is,
\nthe same story niftily rebranded.
\nA story of endless wants:
\nOf not this but that
\nNot this feeling but that one
\nNot this father but that one
\nNot this lover but that one
\nNot this job but that one
\nNot this loss but \u2013
\nNo, not that one either.
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\n\n\nPerhaps there are days when this soul-seed carried by the elements,
\nand watered with love,
\ncan grow a host of stories.
\nStories of endless vows:
\nOf this and this
\nYes, this joy and this sorrow
\nYes, this adventure and this homecoming
\nYes, this freedom and this constraint
\nYes, this loss -
\nand yes, this one too.
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\n\n\nA host of stories:
\nbeyond compare;
\nbeyond comparison.
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\n\n\n\nJaneena Sims
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\nPhoto by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash\n