Comments on: How to Stop an Angry Man from Killing People http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/ Seeds, pulp, and all. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: sarah http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3093 sarah Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:44:04 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3093 Thank you, sydtek. It's great to hear from you again, and you're absolutely right -- it's about humanity over pathology. Thank you, sydtek. It’s great to hear from you again, and you’re absolutely right — it’s about humanity over pathology.

]]> By: sydtek http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3092 sydtek Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:56:50 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3092 sarah, i met you at the little technology panel they filmed in the city a few weeks back. hope its cool that i'm following you on twitter and poking around your blog. i loved this story! I am a big believer that we all have brilliant sanity that just needs to be invited out. in our culture where attention has become a high priced commodity, and "expert" attention deemed superior, we to easily fall between the cracks and lose ordinary connections with people. i like the details about the flight attendants-- how they'd been laughing about him, and also how they checked in with you too. i work as a caregiver for people with disabilities and mental diagnoses. It is so vital in my work to see the humanity in people, and not see them as their pathology. I believe that open kind attention is medicine, perhaps the best kind of medicine. I honor that you weren't afraid to be with this man even when everybody else found him "difficult". How cool. be well! sarah,
i met you at the little technology panel they filmed in the city a few weeks back. hope its cool that i’m following you on twitter and poking around your blog. i loved this story!
I am a big believer that we all have brilliant sanity that just needs to be invited out. in our culture where attention has become a high priced commodity, and “expert” attention deemed superior, we to easily fall between the cracks and lose ordinary connections with people.
i like the details about the flight attendants– how they’d been laughing about him, and also how they checked in with you too. i work as a caregiver for people with disabilities and mental diagnoses. It is so vital in my work to see the humanity in people, and not see them as their pathology. I believe that open kind attention is medicine, perhaps the best kind of medicine. I honor that you weren’t afraid to be with this man even when everybody else found him “difficult”. How cool. be well!

]]> By: gwfrink3 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3028 gwfrink3 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:14:09 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3028 That save-life (with the risk-taking conversation), preserve-dignity (with the time-lapse before reporting) and followup (phone call) plus no name-calling does put you in a very nice league indeed. That save-life (with the risk-taking conversation), preserve-dignity (with the time-lapse before reporting) and followup (phone call) plus no name-calling does put you in a very nice league indeed.

]]> By: sarah http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3009 sarah Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:45:28 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3009 These comments are making me blush like nobody's business. Thank you, guys. (p.s. I'm in Austin safely, and experienced no homicidal maniacs on my way there. Just a love-struck Mormon and a friendly video game developer. All is well in the world.) These comments are making me blush like nobody’s business. Thank you, guys.

(p.s. I’m in Austin safely, and experienced no homicidal maniacs on my way there. Just a love-struck Mormon and a friendly video game developer. All is well in the world.)

]]> By: Thomas http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3008 Thomas Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:42:50 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3008 Nice one, Sarah. I'm in awe of you. Nice one, Sarah. I’m in awe of you.

]]> By: Severe http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3007 Severe Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:51:12 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3007 If ah was on tha fence, tryin ta decide if ah liked Sarah er nawt, this post would've pushed me ovah intae tha "yes" field. Since ahm already thar, this will just hafta earn you brownie points, which ahm sure will eventually be redeemable fer sumthang werthwhile. Great story. Have a blast in TX! If ah was on tha fence, tryin ta decide if ah liked Sarah er nawt, this post would’ve pushed me ovah intae tha “yes” field.

Since ahm already thar, this will just hafta earn you brownie points, which ahm sure will eventually be redeemable fer sumthang werthwhile. Great story. Have a blast in TX!

]]> By: Karen Sugarpants http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3006 Karen Sugarpants Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:12:10 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3006 What an amazing story. Thank goodness for people like you. I'm so glad it turned out in the end. What an amazing story. Thank goodness for people like you. I’m so glad it turned out in the end.

]]> By: motherbumper http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3002 motherbumper Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:11:11 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3002 Isn't it amazing what listening and focusing will do. You are amazing, most wouldn't have taken the time. Isn’t it amazing what listening and focusing will do. You are amazing, most wouldn’t have taken the time.

]]> By: Fivestar http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-3000 Fivestar Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:42:52 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-3000 You're Awesome! You’re Awesome!

]]> By: UpsideUp http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/2008/the-most-interesting-stranger-ive-ever-met/comment-page-1/#comment-2999 UpsideUp Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:35:48 +0000 http://www.sarahdopp.com/blog/?p=415#comment-2999 Wow. What a story. (Followed you here from twitter.) And what a storyteller you are. And what an amazing kind listener you are. Rocker was lucky to meet you, and I feel lucky to have read about it. Wow. What a story. (Followed you here from twitter.) And what a storyteller you are. And what an amazing kind listener you are. Rocker was lucky to meet you, and I feel lucky to have read about it.

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