Shad: how conversation can build understanding through our differences
Shad reflects on how conversation can bring people together in spite of our wildly different lived experiences.
How can peoples' differences bring them closer together, instead of wrenching them further apart?
Shad faced that seeming contradiction multiple times this week.
From adventurer Will Gadd who feels most comfortable while challenging the elements in his death-defying stunts, to listening to the gulf between Indigenous peoples and other Canadians with the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it might be hard to see another human being's lived experience as anything other than alien.
But, as Shad says in his essay this week, understanding comes through the power of conversation — and listening.