Giving Larkin

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    Listening to learn isn’t about giving advice—at least not until asked—but about trying to understand exactly what someone means, how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter’s growing and changing self.
    Elizabeth Debold (20th century)

    Suspended lion face
    Spilling at the centre
    Of an unfurnished sky ...
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)