This chapter invites readers to drift through the tensions between theory and practice, research and pedagogy, silence and speech. Framed by a series of educational provocations, the Southern Current expands the conversation on story-listening as a way of being-with—especially amid uncertainty, systemic impositions, cultural resistance, and dialogical rupture. Beginning with a research project grounded in Critical, Indigenous, and Clown (CIC) perspectives, the chapter discusses “improv inquiry” as a methodology of wonder, astonishment, and attentiveness. Listening, then, becomes a pedagogy of noticing: of attuning to pauses, glances, unsaids, and the shimmering presence of silence. Along the way, barriers to listening (e.g., institutional pressure, performative urgency, internalized expectations, and fear) are not framed as problems to fix, but as invitations to listen more deeply. Through personal narrative and classroom encounters, the chapter reflects on how story-listening is shaped by and shapes relational ethics, presence, and the improvisational pulse of the everyday. The Southern Current offers no script, no endpoint. Instead, it asks: What if we stayed with the not-yet? What if we rowed not to control the direction, but to be carried by what calls us to listen otherwise?