Listen. I have a proposal for you. Hear me out and then you can accept it or reject it as you choose. What would you say to a temporary truce, for as long as it takes you to say your piece and me to say mine? For us to listen to each other as we have never listened, to hear one another without becoming defensive and lashing out, to put, for a moment, a moratorium on bitterness and bile? To see what it’s like to occupy the other’s position? Perhaps you will say it is too late for us, that the moment for compassion is past. And you might be right, but we have nothing more to lose. - great house