On May 1st of 2020, I posted a Small Bite detailing a simple adjustment to help folks listen more profoundly to one another. Here are sections from a heartfelt and beautiful note received in my office a few weeks later.

Katherine, I’m sending you a BIG HUG and ENORMOUS GRATITUDE and Red Envelopes for your Small Bites post – Getting Along During a Difficult Time. I hung the ribbons high in the correct guas, and made sure they were visible. And my, my, my they are certainly working!

Some of our conversations at home are gentle breezes and others are gusts … and all seem to be from a deeper part of our hearts, minds and souls – leading us ultimately to a calming feeling of strength, love, togetherness, and common purpose. I’m astonished.

I notice as the conversations ebb and flow and the days pass, the next days are more productive and satisfying. It seems that new respect is being shown. The cure is transforming my life … subconsciously. Change is happening. This has been enormously helpful for us.

I give enormous thanks to you and Professor, and recognize that I see these conversations differently than I have in the past – as I now have support and a novel method to bring about a change in our lives and engendering communication that I never knew before. And somehow, all of a sudden, I have insight, wisdom, and language to understand living in this new world.