This is not a PC thread,it’s a Robust,Engaging Conversation about the Power of Our Speech & how can we move from Hostile use of Words to Hospitable Embrace of Difference while sharing our different concerns of Real Life situations. Welcome to my Heart!
Proverbs 18: 21 - “The tongue has the power of life and death…”
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can hurt forever.”
OTOH
“A kind word is never wasted.”
Glad to be here. It looks/feels/sounds like a good and friendly place…
Great post to welcome me at the top of the page as I make my way back into the forum. Thanks, @Michael_Stumpf.
“The good translator is neither master nor slave.” That really resonates with me. There is no Perfect Translation, but opportunities for creative approximations abound.
“We Shape our Tools,and thereafter,Our Tools shape Us”…Metaphor is one such tool-a powerful one,indeed!
Notice the Hands Touch & Shape the Tools;there seems to be a Digital/Analog Ecology that expresses a Difference that Makes a Difference of a forgotten Unity,Hands & Thinking: the making of Metaphor & Survival “both-and” Thriving.
And/Both with our Brains-Mouths-Hearts an Aspiration to bring forth a Different Living World?
What is Having a Body that has Fire in the Belly Teach Us about life in ,through & 2 inches Beyond a Body Living in an Environment?
