Look around at the people you know, and you’ll quickly see how particular each person’s response is to what life brings to them. You might say that each person has cultivated, over time, a particular ‘flavour’ for their engagement with life, or a particular ‘way of being’ in response to the world.

And yet this ‘flavour’ is often all but invisible to us in our understanding of ourselves, falling into the background of habit and familiarity. How might we help one another awaken to the ways we’re living, and support one another as we practice and experiment with wild new possibilities for ourselves?

Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

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Here’s our source for this week:

Fighting the Wind

The trick is not to.
Not to struggle, thrusting
the anvil of your

body against the
gale, not to compete, but to
sway and bend, threading

the edge of the air,
welcoming dishevelment.
Who is in charge of

corralling the squall
into meager breezes, these
air conditioned spaces?

Who is bold enough
to slam open the windows
let the shouting in?

You want to be brave.
But you yearn also to curl
beneath the blanket

of wind, a small fold,
your breath a small sigh beneath
the world’s loud exhale

and also
to be the window
it shoves into and through, a
portal for the sky.

The wind reminds you
of what you can be, tousled
dismantled,
a being

that can continually
be remade.

Teresa Breeden



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