Brad Hambrick writes about listening well. There are some good points about the difference between listening as a friend or a counsellor: ” a friend listens as a participant in your story while a counsellor listens as an observer of your story.” From the post: The Practice of Listening No instruction can create or replace …
I’d heard of Mannheim Steamroller, but didn’t know a thing about them. Apparently they’ve recorded heaps and heaps of Christmas music. Of course that includes O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
Today’s O Come, O Come Emmanuel is by the late Whitney Houston. It demonstrates a measure of her skill as a vocalist relying more on control than histrionics. https://wp.me/puEkf-7ab
This ad for Google Assistant features the grown up Kevin McAllister (performed again by Macaulay Culkin) and demonstrates how pretty common tech these days would have made all his Home Alone hijinks redundant. It also seems that Kevin still lives with his parents. https://youtu.be/xKYABI-dGEA
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