…the Spanish hacienda where we listened from our balcony to the music from the plaza in Cuzco…falling asleep to the sound of the river as it flowed to the Amazon…the restaurant Las Brujas de Cachiche, in Miraflores…the muddy, one-lane tunnels cut into mountains, dripping with the wet of the cloud forest…surfing waves of desert sand…llamas, pink flamingos, parrots, lizards, sea lions, a jaguar.
In meetings at work, in our community organizations, and places of worship, our leaders do not create settings where we listen from all points of view.
We listened to everything from Sara Brightman singing Andrew Llyod Webber showtunes and artsy Kate Bustuffque stoff to now-classic songs from 1960's (The Byrds) and '70's (The Romantics).
During the beta trial we listened to feedback from readers about many things, including the frequency of updates on the homepage.
Finally we listened to speeches from Donnachadh, Steve and others including Nazan Fennell, the mother of 13 year old Hope, killed in Birmingham in 2011 by an HGV while using a pelican crossing.
When we reached the site of the horse ferry, near the Vermont shore, with the city of Burlington in the background, we listened to instructions from Doug Jones, the dive master, on how to follow the anchor line from the buoy down to the wreck.
We listened to objections from the Right and Left and explore the hard issues of precedent and morality.
We listened to music from the 1970s and tried to guess the artists and the names of songs.
That's all we listened to and, from that album, this is the one that stuck with me.
"We listened to contributions from Kensington and Chelsea and they were delighted with the plans and we heard about other areas that were very satisfied.
"We listened to that report from the FIA and that was saying there were no problems at all in Bahrain.
