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The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
Author
Essayist
Historian
Memoirist
Poet
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Corona
California
Transformation
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Deep
Listening
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Shattering
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Complacency
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