Grow Empathy: Listen Beyond the Sound You Make

Go take a walk
It is easy to hear your own footsteps,
the rustling of the leaves you kick,
the crack of a branch you break.
Listen also to all that is beyond yourself.
The breeze shaking the leaves,
a creak of an old tree,
the quip-quip-quip of an unfamiliar bird.
Be led beyond yourself.
Sense and feel that which is other,
consider from where it comes,
acknowledge, honor, and respect it.