This week’s conversation is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

00:00 Introduction and Context Setting

03:05 Exploring the Poem: 'Until I Thought of Myself as the Sea'

05:58 The Ocean Metaphor: Embracing Complexity

09:05 The Power of Metaphor in Self-Understanding

11:47 Widening Perspectives: The Ocean as a Shared Experience

14:52 Navigating Difficult Conversations with Oceanic Awareness

17:50 Truth and Multiplicity: The Ocean of Perspectives

20:59 Systems Thinking: The Ocean of Relationships

24:02 Conclusion and Reflection

Here’s our source for this week:

I used to separate good days from bad until 

I thought of myself as an ocean. I used to 

split times I felt strong from when I felt weak 

until I imagined myself as the sea. Calm and 

rocky, wild and soft, still and powerful and vast 

and more than any one thing. In the ocean it's 

hard to divorce one mood from another, one wave 

from the next. Now, on my worst days, I think 

of how good life is too, how I still can greet joy 

while swimming through grief. How fragile 

strength feels. How I'm not any one thing in any 

one moment on any one day. I'm all of it and 

all of it is me.

@hannahrowrites

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