tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508150516587703473.post6114005209017650469..comments2023-06-07T08:44:29.808-07:00Comments on Into the Desolate and Brooding Back Yard: What's Missing?Erec Tosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08851858884223943731noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508150516587703473.post-79292779865135282282017-04-21T05:57:16.425-07:002017-04-21T05:57:16.425-07:00Thanks Bill. Wise words. I'll look for the fil...Thanks Bill. Wise words. I'll look for the film. Onward, ErecErec Tosohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08851858884223943731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508150516587703473.post-16702211880501059762017-04-20T08:17:51.593-07:002017-04-20T08:17:51.593-07:00Erec -- As I read your post today, I'm reminde...Erec -- As I read your post today, I'm reminded of the 2009 film, "The Soloist" (Available now on Amazon video.) I was very moved by this movie for several reasons, but one of the take-aways was the lesson learned by the LA Times reporter trying passionately to help the very talented but emotionally impaired musician he met doing a story on homeless people in LA. He finally learned, after many unsuccessful efforts to help this man move off the street, from the case worker at the man's shelter that the important, helpful, and only effective thing he could do that meant something is to simply show up and be his friend without an agenda to fix him. That's what the homeless man needed and was all he could accept. The people you are helping, I'm guessing, are most impacted because you show up, share your time, talents, and attention in the frame of your teaching, so they have the repeated experience of being seen in their world of usually feeling invisible. By itself, that's a great, impactful gift, seems to me.Bill Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15874470888798953280noreply@blogger.com