Takoma Park Friends Meeting-Preparative gathered on 10/28/2018 at the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland. We heard queries and advices from the 2013 draft Baltimore Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice on listening. We heard of the aggravation of being one-on-one with a person who feels the need to dominate conversations; one way that may work is to limit the time spent with such people. We heard of the disappointment of listening to people who talk a great deal but do little. We heard a sense that there’s an understandable reluctance to talk about listening. We heard a sense that reading can sometimes be more effective than listening; books can be life-changing things. We heard of how the challenges we face can influence which podcasts we listen to; we can be aware of how our perceptions influence who we listen to and step outside our areas of comfort. We heard of “bliks,” statements made that no evidence can contradict, regardless of how unbelievable they seem.
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