Ultimately, insisting until curiosity answers requires stamina and tenderness. Some doors open only after we step back, let silence travel the hallway, and ring again with a clearer tone. Baldwin models this patient courage: he returns, revises, and re-engages, trusting that people change when questions become rooms they can inhabit. Thus the practice is cyclical—knock, listen, adjust, return—until the shared curiosity on the other side turns the handle and invites us in together. [...]
