I cannot please everyone, so I don’t intend to try, although that has often been my intention in the past. I know there are some people who do not value my perspective. As a human being, that is the value that I bring to the world: a singular and unique perspective. Her podcast, On Being, is the realization of a dream that I had long ago when I discovered the writings of Studs Terkel, an oral historian who wrote books about the Great Depression, about working, and about the social, political, and economic divisions in American society.Īfter a half century of living, I have come to the conclusion that the best that I can do is express a particular point of view, which is the one thing that is unique about myself. I am inspired by the work of Krista Tippett to create civil conversations and to build a community around discussions about being human.
My desire was to participate in the process of individual change and the strengthening of community, but the intellectual and emotional baggage of past experiences with this faith community gave me some reasons to pause and wonder whether there was an even more inclusive approach that we could take by modifying the language of the book to be more universal, finding common points of reference in the experience of being human. I recently came across a book about spiritual disciplines that is specific to the practices and teachings of a particular religion, Christianity. With the death of Jean Vanier, there is a desire that has risen in my mind to honour his legacy by continuing his work in a way that extends his joy and his ethos into a movement that helps us to heal our sense of loneliness and our desire to be loved, to help us find belonging by including people in community and finding freedom through forgiveness.
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