Making space sounds, at first, like an act of subtraction. We clear the table. Move the chair. Take something from the shelf and leave a little air around what remains. The room becomes quieter, and we call the work complete. But empty space is only the beginning. The more meaningful gesture comes afterward, when the opening we have made is offered to something beyond ourselves: another person, an unfamiliar idea, a possibility we cannot entirely anticipate. Space becomes welcome only when we allow what enters it to change the arrangement....
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