(audio) from Commonwealth Club.

Some decent psychological pointers sans any psycho-babble ... re How to actually communicate via adult norms.
#1) LISTEN [!!!]
a convincing bunch of comments re the effect of {just?} Being Listened-to! ... a rarity in many households, tribes, religios and ____.

But there's *more, should you have a yen to break through the pandemic of Orange-menace-programmed-divisiveness ... re one or another [person in mind?]* A contrast also: the lttle attention paid--over last 20 years--to the deterioration of The MInd in Murica:
Sample: consider what happened during Shrub's stolen Presidency* and compare with now. This topic hardly ever appears, isolated enough to analyze. So it's stark-status is also only glimpsed, en passant.. add-to-list.
It's not just edjakayshun's inept performance. Deterioration has set-in.
More brain-food; lots less std. junk food/while sitting staring at screens? The water?



If there's any SHOUTING ... you've forgotten the simple Rulez.