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Circle of ThreeFor Marj Reimer HeinrichsBonnie dedicates this final episode to Marj Heinrichs, a dear friend who died unexpectedly. Bonnie tells how Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese weaves through another deep river of sorrow that holds surprise, delight, and gratitude. Thank you Marj, for living our truth: ‘we do not have to be good’. For showing me, in your ways of outrageous generosity and deep presence, how ‘we belong in a family of things’. To find the written version of this episode, go to beingbeloved.ca, to "letters".
2023-06-3011 minCircle of ThreeOne of the Most Beautiful Blessings in the WorldIn episode 5, this blessing of Oliver’s completes their conversation: “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination”. This blessing launches a celebration of Oliver’s body of work, and then invites these questions: Where are we inspired to to live boldly? Where are those places that honour “the soft animal of our body”? What changes when we see that we belong to a “family of things”? Visit www.beingbeloved.ca for more conversation with Circle Of Three.
2023-06-2916 minCircle of ThreeWild, Clean and HomeEpisode 4: Wild, Clean and Home, words used in Oliver’s poem Wild Geese, guide this conversation about belonging. It touches on Bonnie’s love for volleyball, her messy house, those places where we ultimately belong: places where we “do not have to be good”. Visit www.beingbeloved.ca for more conversation with Circle Of Three.
2023-06-2819 minCircle of ThreeStepping into the River of SorrowIn episode 3, Bonnie and Katharine step into the river of sorrow and open their arms wide to the surrender of grief. “Meanwhile”, and Oliver’s poignant use of that one word, holds the arc of Bonnie’s journey as she reflects on the unexpected death of her sister almost 7 years ago. As Katharine holds space, Bonnie steps deeper and deeper into that river of sorrow, and shows all of us how to surrender ourselves to its wisdom. Visit www.beingbeloved.ca for more conversation with Circle Of Three.
2023-06-2729 minCircle of Three11 Words from Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"In episode 2, we lean into 11 words from Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese: “Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine”. After Bonnie tells about a poignant moment in her 5 year journey with a woman who suffered a degenerative disease, Katharine guides the conversation towards the wisdom gleaned from the habits created inside this intense journey of belonging. Visit www.beingbeloved.ca for more conversation with Circle Of Three.
2023-06-2620 minCircle of ThreeYou Do Not Have To Be GoodCircle of Three, Season 2 invites you into a conversation between Katharine Cherewyk, Bonnie Loewen and Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese. One episode at a time, this iconic poem slowly unfurls while igniting reflective conversation about our human journey. We shed armour that keeps us from our true self; we claim habits that embolden and protect the soft animal of our body; we live wildly, honestly and authentically, understanding our place “in the family of things”. In this 1st episode of season 2, we listen to Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Gees...
2023-06-2526 min
Transgender Woman TalkingTERFs and JK RowlingElle dips her toes into the conversation about Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) and JK Rowling and her new podcast, The Witch Trials of JK Rowling. She reflects on her internal impulses to condemn and empathize with folks like Rowling -- as well as the strangely validating experience of not being seen, trusted, or heard. Elle refers to Julia Serano's famous Trans Woman Manifesto from her book Whipping Girl as well as the 2022 novel Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. She also references the concept of cancel culture, as well as some of the brands that LGBTQ people reject...
2023-04-1134 min
Atascocita Library Advanced CopyLit Chat May 2022: The Witch’s Heart, Utopia Avenue, and moreThis month is Reader's Choice for Lit Chat. PJ and Bonnie share their reads over the last few weeks, though they both took turns in historical fiction -- or history that turned out to be false! You can also join PJ and Bonnie for Lit Chat in person on the second Thursday of each month at 1 pm.
Books:
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Lies my teacher told me : everything American history textbooks get wrong by James W. Loewen ; adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
2022-05-1142 minCircle of ThreeInto The WorldIn Episode 5 we claim our ways of bringing our song into the world. As Martha Postlewaite writes in her poem “Clearing”, “only then (after you step into your forest, get completely lost, find the clearing, hear your song) will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.” And sing, we will. Welcome to Circle of Three, a conversation between two friends and colleagues with an invitation to you, the listener to step into the circle. Through poetry, story and an offering of personal and collective practices, Bonnie Loewen and Katharine C...
2021-11-1530 minCircle of ThreeFinding Your SongThis fourth episode looks at how we recognize the unique song that belongs us. As Martha Postlewaite writes, “Wait there patiently until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it.” It’s not a song written or certified or amplified by someone else. It’s a song held in our own cupped hands. Welcome to Circle of Three, a conversation between two friends and colleagues with an invitation to you, the listener to step into the circle. Through poetry, story and an offering of personal...
2021-11-0828 minCircle of ThreeThe Practice of StillnessIn episode 3, we accept that it is a daily, ongoing discipline to experience a stillness that has us listen deeply. Martha Postlewaite writes, “create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently.” We stepped into the forest, we found the courage to get completely lost and now, here we are, at the place where we patiently listen for the gifts given inside the stillness of a clearing. Welcome to Circle of Three, a conversation between two friends and colleagues with an invitation to you, the listener, to step into the cir...
2021-11-0131 minCircle of ThreeLost In The ForestIn this second episode, “we do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose”, as Martha Postlewaite writes in her poem “Clearing”. Instead, we wonder why is it so important to be lost in our forest? And what is the connection to being lost in the forest of our lives in order to be found in our clearing? Welcome to Circle of Three, a conversation between two friends and colleagues with an invitation to you, the listener to step into the circle. Through poetry, story and an offering of personal and collective...
2021-10-2533 min
Circle of ThreeInto The Forest“Do not try to save the world or do anything grandiose. Instead create a clearing in the dense forest of your life,” writes Martha Postlewaite. This first episode celebrates that life is a journey with crossroads and opportunities, and that failure or public rejection is a crossroad with a ton of opportunity. Welcome to Circle of Three, a conversation between two friends and colleagues with an invitation to you, the listener to step into the circle. Through poetry, story and an offering of personal and collective practices, Bonnie Loewen and Katharine Cherewyck aim to spark...
2021-09-2232 min