Listen. I just took an hour to listen to Gordon Hempton, an amazing audio ecologist talk about what it is to just listen. Here is the link to the interview at On Being

http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2012/last-quiet-places/

Most importantly, around minute 23 he recounts how parents often tell him “my kids just don’t know how to listen!” His sage perspective about real listening and how children are our teachers, will inspire. He talks about the pleasure of putting a preschooler on your shoulders and going out for an evening walk. “preschoolers who haven’t yet been trained to listen and can take in the whole world, they know how to just be here.”

“What we hear is who we are”