<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Understanding on Walking in Sober Boots</title><link>https://soberboots.org/tags/understanding/</link><description>Recent content in Understanding on Walking in Sober Boots</description><image><title>Walking in Sober Boots</title><url>https://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpg</url><link>https://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpg</link></image><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:19:05 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://soberboots.org/tags/understanding/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Thoughts on Understanding vs. Empathy and National Healing</title><link>https://soberboots.org/2020/11/06/thoughts-on-understanding-vs-empathy-and-national-healing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:19:05 -0500</pubDate><guid>https://soberboots.org/2020/11/06/thoughts-on-understanding-vs-empathy-and-national-healing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been thinking a lot about empathy lately, in part because the tone of our nation borders on uncivil at best and out right bellicose at worst. Indeed, the tone of the nation is not uniform. There are pockets of civility, at the individual level, but by and large, the tone of our national conversation rears its ugly head by envisioning anyone who does not think or act in the manner that we do as the enemy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>