
Learning to Listen
Back in the early 1990s, while working in North Carolina, I would meet a friend for lunch nearly every month. Doc Brown, a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, and I would talk about current events and issues involving the power company that employed me. While officially these were "business lunches," they were really more about two friends getting together to talk over a meal.
Doc, an African-American man in his 60s, was an educator most of his life, before entering a career in