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\nIn a culture that values 'keeping it all together', it is no small thing to trust ourselves - to welcome the parts of ourselves that are scared, or confused, or unravelling. When we remember that there's always something of ourselves that we can trust, perhaps we can turn towards those parts of us - that we might otherwise try to push away - and hold them in just the ways in which they long to be held. And when we do this for each other, we strengthen the bonds of trust in one another that support us as we voice our differences, our lostness, our gifts and and our grief.
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.\xa0 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, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nAbove the Paradox Valley
\n/after Ocean Vuong, \u201cSomeday I\u2019ll Love Ocean Vuong\u201d/
\nYou do not need to know what comes next.
\nThere is always another storm, and you
\ncannot hang the tent out to dry before
\nit has gotten wet. You cannot shovel snow
\nthat has yet to fall.
\nPut down the shovel. Breathe
\ninto the dark spaces of your back,
\nfeel how they open like cave doors
\nto let in the light.
\nLet your face soften. Let the creases
\nfall out of your brow. The mind,
\nno matter how clear, will never become
\na crystal ball.
\nThe wisest part of your body
\nknows to run when it hears
\nthe first crashes of rock fall.
\nIt does not pause then to consider
\nmetamorphic or igneous,
\nnor does it hesitate to wonder
\nwhat might have pushed them down.
\nIt is no small thing to trust yourself.
\nIt\u2019s okay to cry. It is right
\nthat love should shake your body,
\nthat you should find yourself trembling
\nin the rubble and dust
\nafter all your certainties come down.
\nYour breath has not left you.
\nHere is the morning rain. It opens
\nthe scent of the leaves, of the air.
\nAll around you the world is changing.
\nWhat are you waiting for?
\nHere is the cup of mint tea
\ngrowing stronger in itself.
\nHere on this cliff of uncertainty
\nthere is a stillness in you
\nso spirited, so alive
\nthe wisest part of your body
\nis dancing.
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\nRosemerry Wahtola Trommer
\nhttps://ahundredfallingveils.com/
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\nPhoto by Davide Cantelli on Unsplash\n