{"id":1041,"date":"2021-11-24T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2022-03-22T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:31:44","slug":"voices-from-the-road-a-community-listening-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Voices from the Road:  A Community Listening Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I was honored to be one of 400 folks from around the country to attend Krista Tippett&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/the-gathering\/\">On Being Gathering.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gathering20181-326-1-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"411\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People from many walks of life, ethnicities and ages came together to explore how to create civil dialogue in our society which has become so polarized.\u00a0 Several months ago, I began my own effort to do this with what I call &#8220;Voices from the Road.&#8221;\u00a0 The &#8220;road&#8221; is called Cerillos in Santa Fe, New Mexico and it is like many other hugely busy streets in America, filled with fast food establishments, a church, big box stores, people experiencing homelessness, upper income folks seeking healthy foods&#8230;it is in effect a cross section of Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p>I decided that instead of traveling thousands of miles to walk Spain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/caminoways.com\/camino-de-santiago\">Camino de Santiago<\/a> I would walk Cerillos Road in search the stories that make up our community.\u00a0 I suspected they would be stories of loss and despair, hope and transformation, laughter and tears.\u00a0 I am going by bus and foot, meeting people on the streets, in workplaces and all along the way.\u00a0<strong> I&#8217;ll be posting some of these stories here along with photos, but if you&#8217;d like to be on a regular mailing list, please let me know by using the contact form in this post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Listening to learn&#8230;\u00a0 In addition to the On Being Gathering, I was inspired by Andrew Forsthoefel and his travels by foot across the country, shared in his book, Walking to Listen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/30038862-walking-to-listen\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/30038862-walking-to-listen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1493929666l\/30038862.jpg\" alt=\"30038862\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I was honored to be one of 400 folks from around the country to attend Krista Tippett&#8217;s &#8220;On Being Gathering.&#8221; People from many walks of life, ethnicities and ages came together to explore how to create civil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthwalks-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}