The Isolation Journals - Day 83

Prompt:  Listening attentively lives at the ebb and flow of the boundary, the together and separate. Write about the last time you felt someone was truly listening to you. What was it like—emotionally, physically, and energetically—to be heard?

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Is this thing on?  Testing, one, two.

Do you ever feel like you're shouting into the void, on a microphone screeching with feedback?  And the void actually has the audacity to interrupt you?

My dream is to do something, anything, notable enough that Terry Gross interviews me on Fresh Air.  She's the ultimate listener.  She could extract an interesting anecdote from someone whose job is watching paint dry.

She's the queen of insightful questions and thoughtful follow-ups.  Is she that way all the time, in her personal life, too?  Or is active listening so exhausting that she just pets her cat and mmhmms her way through dinner conversations with her husband?