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\nWhen any of us - or all of us - face a tectonic shift in our lives, through a birth or a death, a change in circumstances, or a calamity in the world, it can be hard to know how to respond. We easily overcomplicate, or turn away because we don\u2019t know what to do.
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\nBut what if the most necessary response in difficult times - and the one that cultivates the best in us - was the simplest\u2026 taking care of one another through the simple, practical, almost-invisible small things?
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\nHosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nHere\u2019s our source for this week:
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\nThe small things that carry love\xa0
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\nWhen I gave birth for the first time,
\nMy daughter washing up on the shores of my world\xa0
\nWith such newness and raw need\xa0
\nAnd so many questions swimming in her eyes,
\nI remember not knowing which way was up. Or who I was or what anything was.\xa0
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\nI felt like I needed something huge,
\nSome great pair of hands to scoop me up and help me find a way to be in this new world I had been ushered into so slowly and suddenly. I needed a plan for my whole life. How to keep her safe, how to live, how to be this new version of myself that didn\u2019t fit yet.\xa0
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\nAnd here\u2019s what I remember.\xa0
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\nI remember my mum changing the bin for me and folding a pile of laundry.\xa0
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\nI remember my husband bringing me dark chocolate and a cup of tea and letting me sleep for half an hour.\xa0
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\nI remember these small things because these are the things that mattered most while the tectonic plates shifted inside me.\xa0
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\nSmall, practical, kind things that don\u2019t require any words or thinking or explaining or responding to.\xa0
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\nThe small things that whisper \u2018you\u2019re okay, the world is still slow and gentle and made of daily tasks; it will wait for you.\u2019\xa0
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\nAnd so now, when I find myself on the other end of\xa0
\nanother\u2019s great crossing of some invisible line - the\xa0
\ndeath of someone or the birth, or any slow, sudden\xa0
\nchange that can come in any number of ways,\xa0
\nI have learned to trust that the love I feel and the\xa0
\ngoodness I want to express
\nwill best flow towards this one I love\xa0
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\nThrough the simple, practical, almost-invisible\xa0
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\nsmall
\nthings.
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\nHollie Holden
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