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Something like an introduction

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Seth Dellinger·...
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This platform seems like an awesome idea, but I still mostly don't understand how it works which has kept me from landing here very often.

This post is something of an experiment for that reason. I wonder if someone will see it and respond. I wonder if that happens, whether I will know unless I specifically come back from time to time to check. 

Then again, I do often put a lot of effort to write meaningful things on platforms like Facebook and find myself disappointed in the response. I'd love to discover an online space that felt generative rather than just practicing resiliently swimming upstream.

By way of introduction, I do many things, but they all boil down to various questions of relationship - all the relationships that can be imagined between self, other and world. When my attunement feels the way I like it to do, everything is like music to me, so I call that 'musicality of being.' 

Above all these days, I'm focused on the art of listening - in all the ways that one might imagine what "listening" means (I'm trying to further diversify my own definitions.

I recently wrote some "Notes on Listening": 

https://open.substack.com/pub/sethdellinger/p/notes-on-listening?r=p5zo5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

If you took the time to read this . . . thanks!

https://sethdellinger.substack.com/
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