Thank you, Carol! Are you back from Hawaii? I'd love to have coffee Saturday or Monday. Want to meet at Honey & Rye? What's a good day/time for you? See you soon.
As you state in the introduction - a real conversation NOURISHES us. There is something very satisfying for both interlocutors when we share from the depths of our minds and souls. Thank you for another great essay.
"It’s difficult to sit with a friend and exchange thoughts about climate change or the war in Gaza without the entire internet crashing the party." Such a fine observation about the obfuscating, isolating peril of crushing info-overload.
It gets worse and worse, doesn't it? And for someone like me who is regularly adding my two cents, I feel both in need of readers and completely in tune with people who can't take it anymore.
this is your neighbor Carol in #29. I would treasure real conversation with you.
Thank you, Carol! Are you back from Hawaii? I'd love to have coffee Saturday or Monday. Want to meet at Honey & Rye? What's a good day/time for you? See you soon.
love this one and agree with you completely on its rarity and its value, that is of conversation.
Such a loss. As I wrote, it's cheap and it should be available but somehow it's not.
As you state in the introduction - a real conversation NOURISHES us. There is something very satisfying for both interlocutors when we share from the depths of our minds and souls. Thank you for another great essay.
Thanks, Rita. Maybe that speaks to the success of Substack. People have a lot to say and no one to say it to.
One of your best ever. I think about this a lot, because what’s more important than authentic connections between human beings?
And it has such major implications in the larger world. If we could talk and, more to the point, listen to one another, everything would be different.
Right on once again Susie! I look forward to more exterior and interior conversations with you!
Agreed! You and I make music.
Thank you--I love your writing and your perspective and that you share with us as you do.
It's a privilege, Zoe. It creates resonance in an otherwise often unresponsive world. Thank you for being a responsive reader.
Thank you, Susie--I feel so lucky to get to be one!
"It’s difficult to sit with a friend and exchange thoughts about climate change or the war in Gaza without the entire internet crashing the party." Such a fine observation about the obfuscating, isolating peril of crushing info-overload.
It gets worse and worse, doesn't it? And for someone like me who is regularly adding my two cents, I feel both in need of readers and completely in tune with people who can't take it anymore.