310: Continually Remade

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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