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\nWhat if we were able to really deeply honour and welcome our incompleteness and imperfection, and honour our own and one another's unique ways of being in the world? Maybe then - if we gave up our harsh self-criticism and our demands for perfection - we'd ever more be able to be 'home' for one another, and participate generously, lovingly and compassionately in the reshaping of ourselves that life is always asking of us.
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\nHosted, 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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\nSymmathesy (the poem)
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\nEach one of us is a crooked tree,
\nReaching for water and light,
\nBending ourselves around obstacles,
\nScary thoughts, hurtful moments,
\ndarkness & thirst,
\nFinding a way to breathe in the sun and hold the soil,
\nOur branches are kinked and twisted,
\nBecause that is what it took to be here,
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\nThe ways of learning to be in our worlds,
\nHave shaped responses,
\nOur many experiences are speaking through every gesture.
\nOur loves, and broken paths, a tenderness, a criticism,
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\nLearning always,
\nYearning always,
\nIn crooked beauty...
\nTo be a home for those who may find comfort
\nIn the asymmetry of our belonging,
\nA nest cradling new life,
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\nTucked into an old log teeming with creatures,
\nlearning to be in each other's reshaping.
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\nNora Bateson
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\nPhoto by Brandon Green on Unsplash