Listening
Listening came up again and again as 2024 came to a close. In a brief work meeting, yet one of the most productive meetings of 2024, a colleague used 'listening to respond' in a sentence. This was the third time that week a similar phrase had resonated with me. Just the evening before that meeting I had been listening to this dialogue between Claire Pedrick MCC and Oscar Tromboli who were talking about how to listen. As a result of the dialogue I subscribed to Oscar Tromboli's Deep Listening Challenge, and was surprised to receive a response from him when I followed the email request at the end of the challenge. It's led me to reflect on my listening skills in different languages, mainly English, Music and Italian. The placement of music as a language is a new concept for me, but it fits well to my experience. I may be rusty at using it, but as a few chords strummed in my year group's Winter Show proved, it is still a language I enjoy to converse in. After all, I s...