This 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.

Our source this week is chosen for us by Lizzie, and is written by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

And could I, like this picture frame

hold any image I was given?

I think of the news last night—how I would rather not hold

what I saw there.

I think of what I learned just yesterday

about myself and notice how

I would rather push the image away.

But could I be like this picture frame

that will hold anything and in so doing

honor its importance? Honor

everything, no matter how mundane,

no matter how frightening,

as something worth knowing,

something essential to what it means to be alive,

a soup can, perhaps, a petunia, or a scream.

How easily the frame says yes to the world,

takes it in, anything, with no judgement,

and offers it whatever beauty it has.

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