Land on the different issues of the day, what is coming to the floor is the ways we talk to one another, the ways in which we listen. You have written a fantastic book with understanding and hearing other peoples stories and ways they are heard and ways you listen to them. Lets jimp in and ask you, what led you to this book . What is this book . Tell us the background of it. Your assessment is right. I worry a great deal about that we dont converse anymore. We have lost that as an art of conversation. We have become divisive. The rhetoric on both sides takes over the conversation. This is about human beings, an ethical issue. For me it started many years ago in childhood, t 20when i ma eastern chad and refugee camps right when they were coming over. In those camps i would say is when i started listening to refugee stories and i heard the best of humanity and i heard about the worst, what happened to people. I made many subsequent trips. Then many years later, in looking at this world w