#Thelisteningproject is an opportunity to listen to and better know your neighbors. #Relationships are foundational (2/2)

Want to change the world? Begin in your homes. Love your family. Pour into young people. Meet your neighbors. Seek common good of your city.

Working for and with > talking about and to our #neighbors. #Thelisteningproject

Everyone has something to give to society; no one is excluded from contributing to the good of all. (via Pope Leo XIV) #dignity #withnotfor

Working together with our neighbors helps us surrender our “rightness” to the true needs of the community. #Development #TheListeningProject

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding…” (1/2)

“…The highest form of knowledge is #empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.” (2/2) - Bill Bullard

"The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction." - Gary Haugen

Iowa ELL students increased by 500 percent from 1991 to 2015. dmreg.co/2r2c3T9 (via Des Moines Register)

Dear Christian: Your neighbors don't want you to see them as a "target group." Who does? They want you to be a good neighbor. Start there.

Reconciliation & Transformative Friendships rviv.ly/B9pS0 (via CCDA)

My addiction to constant critique/criticism means I think I have all the answers. Rehab start with admitting that’s a problem.

Poverty is not created by poor people but by the system we built, institutions we designed, & concepts we formulated ccda.org/our-journey-to…

The myth of American individualism deceives privileged people into thinking they're born in an innocent vacuum & on a level playing field.

The seeds for thriving public life are sown in all our cities. They simply need space to blossom. #LanewayLivingRoom #citiesforpeople

Proximity matters. Being close to the work & the people you serve/partner is essential. How close are you? #neighbors #withnotfor

CCDA Statement re: President Trump rescinding #DACA CCDA Pres: @NoelCCDA CEO: Ava Steaffens Board Chair: Mayra Macedo-Nolan ccda.org/daca-has-been-…

"It's an entirely different experience, one that can transform people faster & with more impact." Seth Godin sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/201…

W/o hospitality -- welcoming the stranger -- movement of peoples results in colonization, exclusion, and violence. Diana Butler Bass