Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Let's Remake the World With Words
I love when a child is just starting to get the mystery of language. And i think because language is something most of us, it'sit's all around us from the very beginning. Its we she, because it was hidden to her, in some ways, a she experienced that magic in a way that we don't know you experienced it also. But we see it with children too. What's happening is word and that creature are coming together, and the child's alive with it. You know, there's a poem in concerning the body the book, that is the body of the beloved, where actually you are paraphrasing the rabbis, let's remake the world with words...
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