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MAKING HEADROOM chronicles a year (or so) of weekly trips to a monastery, where words are spoken slowly, as though the point is to hear them — not to see how many can fit into an already bustling space. It’s the kind of place where the next thing is glad to wait as long as it takes for an old man to shuffle across the room. I learn to meet him in the quiet so I can also meet him in the clamor.
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