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Turning 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.  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.

Here's our source for this week:

Each one of us is a crooked tree,

Reaching for water and light,

Bending ourselves around obstacles,

Scary thoughts, hurtful moments,

darkness & thirst,

Finding a way to breathe in the sun and hold the soil,

Our branches are kinked and twisted,

Because that is what it took to be here,

The ways of learning to be in our worlds,

Have shaped responses,

Our many experiences are speaking through every gesture.

Our loves, and broken paths, a tenderness, a criticism,

Learning always,

Yearning always,

In crooked beauty...

To be a home for those who may find comfort

In the asymmetry of our belonging,

A nest cradling new life,

Tucked into an old log teeming with creatures,

learning to be in each other's reshaping.

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