Thanks for this lovely story of such encouraging good work. Listening can be a form of gift-giving, taking the other seriously, bringing a fresh view to their and our circumstances, making space for surprise, connection, empathy, agreement or disagreement, accompaniment, and also imagination of the future, wondering together what we could do if…, what we would do if …. Which we do everyday, too, in the form of considering today and tomorrow’s openness to what we can do, who we can be as we explore things together. With some luck, I’ll find a publisher for a small book on such listening: Making Music Together: Listening as Paying Attention to What Matters. Thanks again for this good work! Listen on!