93: What We Learn from Trees

What happens when we stop relating to ourselves and others as things? A conversation about trees, depth, and openness to one another with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

Here’s Episode 93 of Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We’re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify

We easily forget how wide, deep and mysterious it is to be a human being, and in doing so we misunderstand ourselves as things. And when we relate to ourselves this way – as objects – we run the risk of reducing everything and everyone to an object in our own image. It’s this way of ‘flattening’ ourselves and life that can most easily be undone when we open ourselves to the way of being of the non-human world – an invitation beautifully made in this episode by Howard Nemerov’s poem ‘Trees’.

Join us for a conversation about openness, relating differently to fear, connecting deeply with the world and other people, and understanding how it’s our relationships that make each of us who we are.

You can find the poem here.