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Other….thoughts…

Nov 13, 2017 | Posted by beverlykhoffman |

Words have always intrigued me.  Just the sound of certain words, like cashmere, nobility, and honey, just feel good as they roll around in my mouth.

For the last four or five years, I’ve been listening to the way words morph…nouns becoming verbs. Remember the Xerox machine (noun) and how we now xerox copies.  What about the fairy tale troll (noun) that has now become a verb (trolled) when we want to spy on someone or make them feel uncomfortable?

Just recently other has become a verb.  We can “other’ a person or group because they don’t fit in with me or my tribal thought.  Most often, we “other” because they have different political views, a different color of skin, or practice a religion different than mine/ours.

Othering saddens me.  I don’t want to participate in this purposeful non-acceptance of certain people.  I want to work hard to listen to the stories, understand their logic, and hear their loneliness.

I personally like the preamble to the Constitution, “We, the people, in order to form a more perfect union establish justice….”  We sounds just right to me…all of us, together, believing in one another’s goodness.

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  • Eloise Ware
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    November 28, 2017 at 4:38 AM

    I will jump in here on your blog and discuss words with you. Well exactly one word with you. I have often thought about the word we. It is a word that not everyone uses as easily as do others. If you think about it you hear people attach we to so many things. For instance, We: are having fish for dinner, bought a new car, are planning a trip, went to a movie last night, had a fabulous trip to Spain. But some people do not have a We.
    Not a regular we. An occasional we, yes, called the friend we.
    They lost their partner We.
    Either they left their family of origin and never joined up to become a We, or , they joined up but later on disconnected from thst we under some circumstance. Instead, they refer to nearly everything they are doing, and even the things they did with someone else long before, as an experience from the standpoint of I. Maybe we once saw the Northern Lights on a trip to Finland, but the story is told from the standpoint of I. Perhaps this is good because that person now has realized that they have their own experiences which can never be taken away. The larger we, such as we Americans, We the People, is made up of the individual I together with the next individual I. And that is how being a part of mankind makes us a we. I hear it all the time, but I wonder if we do.

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