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Tuesday night the teacher at the Pacific Zen Institute Koan group asked those attending this question – “When is the last time you whispered to someone?” Hearing that filled me with a sense of wonder, and intimacy, and it has stayed with me since.

It’s been a long time for me – my San Diego relationship just wasn’t that. I did, though, find myself in a two-person group with a man named Chris after the teacher’s talk, and he said the last time he had whispered to someone was earlier in the day when his granddaughter was sitting on his lap in the library and they were reading animal stories.

I’d like to whisper to someone – probably something sweet, something special – and I am going to hold the possibility of that invitation close.