02 Practice: Listen to a Poem

  Join us for a simple 5-min practice: listening to the reading of a poem. Just a short one this week to get us into the rhythm of conversing & practicing together! (full poem text below)   Check out episode 2 for the corresponding conversation with Teresa Pasquale Mateus and Shawna Wakefield titled "Conversations in Healing Justice."   As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!     BREATHE, a poem by Lynn Ungar Breathe, said the wind.   How can I breathe at a time like this, when the air is full of the smoke of burning tires, burning lives? Just breathe, the wind insisted. Easy for you to say, if the weight of injustice is not wrapped around your throat, cutting off all air. I need you to breathe. I need you to breathe. Don’t tell me to be calm when there are so many reasons to be angry, so much cause for despair! I didn’t say to be calm, said the wind, I said to breathe. We’re going to need a lot of air to make this hurricane together.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien Thank you to Sullivan Oakley for voicing the poem reading.