If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
“According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.”
“The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.”