What Are You Listening To Right Now?

Dear Listener, Have you noticed any influx of poetry in your life during this time of the serious need for our response to Coronavirus? I have. ‘Course you may know my fondness for poetry, it has shown up in these letters before. Recently, with the stressful...

Another Poem; The Art of Listening

The Art of Listening I knew something of conversation, or so I thoughtuntil I listened to another.Knew something of the talk, the sounds the chatter,But to listen and to speak when moments call,that is far greater.Of conversations past, I no longer can remember,Since...

Ask Me; A Poem for Listeners

Dear Listener, This week I offer you a poem. William Stafford touches into a silence that resonates with the sacred art of listening – at least to my ears. If this poem resonates with you, with your listening practice, or with anything that moves you, I would...

For Listening in the New Year

  Dear Listener, There is much that can be said about the value of listening. We have been exploring the value of listening for over 11 years at the LP. It feels as if there is no limit to the value of listening, one human being to another human being. Yet...

Centering

Centering   A passage from “The Excursion,” by Willian Wordsworth                                         I have seenA curious child, who dwelt upon a tractOf inland ground, applying to his earThe convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell;To which, in...