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Between Our Steps: Walking in Their Shoes
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Between Our Steps: Walking in Their Shoes

I found myself on the other side of an uncomfortable conversation recently.

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Cathy Hird
Jun 09, 2024
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a person standing on a gravel road with their shoes on
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A new Stephen Fearing song caught my attention because he used an expression that has been on my mind lately. I’ll just quote a few lines:

…'Cause no-one is an island
When you walk in someone else's shoes
…Heaven help the privileged ones
Who never felt the blues
'Cause you won't find the road to love
'T…

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Cathy Hird lives between the escarpment and Georgian Bay, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Retired farmer and United Church minister, Hird writes fiction and creative non-fiction, with seven published fantasy and SciFi novels.
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