“If we can find new ways to have tenderness toward each other it can change the world.”

It is like a whisper coming out of Catherine Howard’s mouth.

“I live riveted to this idea of tenderness,” she says.

We are well into our telephone interview. I think I gasp.

“If we can find new ways to have tenderness toward each other it can change the world,” she says. “We’re taught ‘get ahead,’ but I don’t see it as a way to live happy lives.”

Almost radical, yes?

I dig into this idea of tenderness. Such a gentle, beautiful word. When did it come to the forefront for her?  Read full article on Airstream.com