Circle of Three
Episodes
11 episodes
You Do Not Have To Be Good
Circle 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 reflect...
11 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...
Stepping into the River of Sorrow
In 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 unexpec...
Wild, Clean and Home
Episode 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 ...
One of the Most Beautiful Blessings in the World
In 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...
For Marj Reimer Heinrichs
Bonnie 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 gratit...
Into 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 ...
Lost In The Forest
In 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 connecti...
The Practice of Stillness
In 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 step...