This morning I saw a comment that bothered me. It was a comment that closed doors and shut down conversation. And then independent of that, Jude wrote a post that has thoughts tumbling over thoughts for me.
I thought at first that what I wanted to write about was motivation. Why we do what we do? How do we live our lives? The ethics and politics of our choices. I am very curious about this and it is important.
But what is really bothering me, what I have kept coming back to over the last few months, is the art of conversation. How do we have conversations about important things where we disagree? Respectful conversations, to learn from each other. To be able to hear each other. How do we live with someone, work with someone, when we disagree with them?
How do we create the tension that is needed to hold something together, but not so tight that it snaps?
Maybe one answer is to just keep trying.