Good morning!  Whew, I am still full from our conversation yesterday — as if I overate a delicious meal.  Thank you all so much for participating with so much honesty and openness  — it was wonderful to see everyone so comfortable with each other in so short a time.

Interesting about the “honesty.”  I had the good fortune of having Jason and Katie sleeping at my house Friday and Saturday evenings.  I told Katie this morning that I believed her opening comment in introducing herself as “…5 months sober” set the tone for our entire group for the day.

Then I was having a conversation with Katie and Jason about sobriety and my own addictions, because I wanted their advice (which, of course, they weren’t allowed to give!) and an amazing conversation developed out of Jason listening to me.  I’ll share that in another blog entry.  I had 2 very powerful new learnings about listening.  I keep being amazed at how much I keep learning, every day, about something I know so much about.

Anyway, thank you all for engaging in the listening conversation with me and Coz.  It was a day that was everything I dreamed it could be — and more.  I can’t wait for our Thursday evening session to find out how things are going for you, and I can’t wait to be in an on-going blog conversation with all of you who are moved to participate, and I can’t wait for the next “Where Love Lives” workshop.  Thank you for helping me make my dream come true.  Dan, if you are reading this, I know it won’t mean much to you until I write either my Listening book, or my My Body-Your Body book, and having you at the workshop will live inside of me forever.  I’m so grateful to have you in my life, much less as my son.  How can’t I be grateful every second of my life for that? I love you more and more every day.

Hope to hear from some of you.  Good luck.  If blogging isn’t your cup of tea, and you’d like to continue the Listening conversation and your experiences with me via email, that would be great.  Just write to me, and if something seems worth sharing with the others on the blog, I would ask your permission.

Clint Eastwood used to say in his movies to the bad guys who were considering fighting him, “Go ahead. Make my day.”  Your coming to the workshop not only made day, it made my life.

Ed