{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Ninth Birthday: Slow Steps and Appropriate Thoughts","description":"We celebrate nine years of Turning Towards Life with a conversation about the relationship between life's everyday demands and a deeper, more stable presence that we can rely upon. We explore how remembering what lies beneath can help us to meet life's complexity as active participants, grounded in something mountainous and enduring that holds us no matter how turbulent our circumstances become.\n\nThis week is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace (https://www.wearethirdspace.org/) .\n\nThis is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace (http://www.wearethirdspace.org/) in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn explore living with depth, attentiveness and care. Find us on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/turningtowardslife/) to 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 (https://turningtowards.life/) , and you can also watch and listen on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/turningtowardslife/) , YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/turningtowardslife) , and as a podcast in all the usual podcast places.\n\nEpisode Overview\n00:00 Celebrating Nine Years of Turning Towards Life\n02:52 The Essence of Conversation and Connection\n06:11 Exploring Mary Oliver's Poem\n11:30 The Mountainousness of Life\n17:24 Finding Joy Amidst the Drama\n23:36 Slowing Down\n29:28 Closing Reflections\n\nThe Poet Dreams of the Mountain by Mary Oliver\n\nSometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts.\nI want to climb some old gray mountains, slowly, taking\nThe rest of my lifetime to do it, resting often, sleeping\nUnder the pines or, above them, on the unclothed rocks.\nI want to see how many stars are still in the sky\nThat we have smothered for years now, a century at least.\nI want to look back at everything, forgiving it all,\nAnd peaceful, knowing the last thing there is to know.\nAll that urgency! Not what the earth is about!\nHow silent the trees, their poetry being of themselves only.\nI want to take slow steps, and think appropriate thoughts.\nIn ten thousand years, maybe, a piece of the mountain will fall.”\n\nMary Oliver\nSwan: Poems and Prose Poems\n\nPhoto by Ante Hamersmit (https://unsplash.com/@ante_kante?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on Unsplash\n (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-in-red-jacket-walking-on-green-grass-field-during-daytime-5GbN2LeeoyY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)\n\nJoin Our Weekly Mailing: http://www.turningtowards.life/subscribe\nSupport Us: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife\n---\n\nJoin Us Live in 2026\n\nTurning Towards Life Live Season 4, from March 2027\nOur Turning Towards Life live programme of community, learning and reflection runs in six month seasons, in person on Zoom once a month. We're very excited about it. A chance to expand beyond the bounds of a podcast into forming a community of learning and practice.\nYou can find out more and join us here: www.turningtowards.life/live\n\n (http://www.turningtowards.life/live) Learn Coaching with Thirdspace\n\nFoundations of Integral Development Coaching\nOur two-day immersive introduction to integral development coaching. An opportunity to begin to learn to support others in deep, life giving discovery and development.\n\nYou can read more 'Foundations' and book a place here:\nhttps://www.wearethirdspace.org/foundations-of-coaching\nYou can hear us talk about the philosophy of our coaching programmes here:\nhttps://www.turningtowards.life/coaching\nAnd our year-long Professional Coaching Course details are here:\nhttps://www.wearethirdspace.org/professional-coaching-course\nJoin Our Weekly Mailing: http://www.turningtowards.life/subscribe\nSupport Us: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife","author_name":"Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4991230-turning-towards-life-a-thirdspace-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43867117/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}