03/10/2025
Listening to this talk by Parker Palmer today and was reminded all over again how wonderful this talk, idea, and practice is. Staying faithful to what we know to be true amidst what we long for (and is not) and what we fear or despair to be always or only true.
And this is the point of therapy, too, to stay together in what is painful and ridden with grief, to hear longings and hopes until we find what is and can be together, the paths you can take, the values and love you want to stand by, the pains you have to bear as part of your life and living and the good that can come from staying with and listening deeper than the pain.
Here is the short version, there are longer on YouTube if you want more.
Parker Palmer on "the tragic gap," by which he means the distance between what is and what we know to be possible.
