And, as my subtitle announces, some aspects of empathy I needed to understand better. I began by reading that post, but soon realized there were important ideas about empathy I wanted to add. I thank her also for the unexpected PhD she awarded me. My thanks to Sharon Lippincott for suggesting and creating this cover for my series. Facetiously entitled LEAPFROG, the E stood for empathy. In early 2017 I did a ten-week series on civil discourse, what I’d found so lacking in my country following the surprise election results. That was the spirit in which I began this post. If more gun owners felt more empathy with those who have suffered so because of guns, we’d turn the corner on this current impasse.
That’s what we need more of, I said to myself. And then there’s t his video from The Washington post for those who want more. His video is credited with persuading Aaron LaRoque to do the same thing. Here’s the first one I saw, with Scott-Dani Pappalardo. What came through to me watching those videos was EMPATHY. What else would motivate someone to change their thinking so dramatically? I got thinking about the power of empathy last month when, in the weeks following the Parkland, Florida shooting, I saw a few facebook video posts from gun owners who had destroyed their assault rifles or turned them in. It was a memoir of sorts, but, subtitled A Natural History of My Garden, it was also a garden book. I’m pulling from that title for today’s post, Cultivating Empathy: My Journey to Understand.īy the way, for clarity, I’m defining empathy as the ability to walk in the shoes of another person, to live their life momentarily, to understand the world inside their head. Diane Ackerman wrote a lovely (delightful actually) book called Cultivating Delight.
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