My neighbor has been encouraging my husband to get back into the chorus to which they both used to belong. She gave him an application, and this time, he sent it in! Sometimes right speech is right voice. I've been telling him to get out more, but now another voice saying the same thing has penetrated his consciousness. I'm not saying he never listens to me, he often does, but this time he needed someone from the chorus to beg him to return. I believe he has been missing singing and perhaps the hiatus was helpful in him realizing he needed to use his voice again in right singing.
It also is another lesson for me in right timing. He is returning at his right time, not mine. As Suzuki Roshi often said, "Don't say too late". My sense in what needs to be done and when is pretty much irrelevant for somebody else and even myself at times. And I hear advice from the "wrong" people all the time and listen more than I would to the "right" people. A different voice is often just the ticket.
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