We’ve all been warned not to judge a person until we’ve walked a mile in their shoes. It’s a good reminder to have empathy for others who may be managing hardships we’ve never imagined. It’s also possible that their shoes are utterly fabulous, of a shape and color that we never would have thought to try.
What have you learned to delight in by trying it someone else’s way?
The first step of building community is opening a space where people can connect, whether that be in a book group at the library, in a work meeting or in an online chat or Facebook group.
What sorts of spaces make it easy for you to connect?
It might not be your idea of comfort to sleep with someone lying on your head, and some of us are downright phobic of being crammed together in tight quarters. But there is something enormously sweet as well as terrifying about such intimacy, about letting go of boundaries and defenses so that it is hard to tell where one being leaves off and the other begins.
With what group do you feel the greatest intimacy?
To be [human] is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. It is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What stone will you place today to contribute to the building of the world?
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
What is the best mistake you’ve made recently?
