Month: May 2016

• May 17, 2016

  Are Relevant Experiences Required for Understanding?

  Sometimes I hear a conversation partner say, “I would like to discuss my relationship with my children. Do you have any children?” The implication is that having children of my own is a necessary condition for being able to adequately discuss his relationship with his children. The argument is so common today that it can…
• May 7, 2016

  The Freedom to Be with What is Happening

  Each time one converses with whomever one converses to not be attached to the conversation going in any preset direction. Can we meet that challenge, embracing it, or would we find it too demanding and dangerous to try, for who knows where it would go, when it will end, or how it will bring itself to…