It became a bridge to conversation that something richer would not have afforded.
Mr. Kentis, the film's writer, director and editor, and Ms. Lau, its producer, spoke over lunch in a favorite haunt, a cavernous restaurant under the Manhattan Bridge where conversation is sporadically overpowered by the rattle of subway cars overhead.
In a race to share it all, there's no time to waste on the dull bits, the waiting for the train, the interaction of lovers on a bridge, the conversation with the taxi driver or the greeting of the overnight hotel clerk as you arrive late for another night in a strange bed.
And that act of disarming vulnerability set off one bridge-crossing conversation after another.
It helped me build more bridges in conversation to have more men open up in everyday situations.
In our "Bridging Differences" conversation on Education Week, Deborah Meier raised the role of "structures" in a democratic way of life in her last blog.
In our recent Bridging Differences conversation in Education Week, Deborah Meier points out that schools are ideal places for people to learn how to engage in debate, especially if they are diverse in race and ethnic history.
Although many participants in such "bridge-building" conversations may lack background in their colleagues' traditions, they nevertheless progress in their understanding of each other.
Thus non-analytic feminists who might find an analytic writing style tediously overqualified or otherwise confining still engage along with nonfeminist analytic philosophers in fruitful bridge-building conversations.
We must respond not by shouting back and harassing those who disagree with us at their places of worship, but by building bridges, starting conversations, and standing up together for social justice that is deep rooted in all our faiths.
