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✨MindShift Musings✨'s avatar

Brilliant! This is exactly what I was referring to in a reply back to you on one of my notes - identical words and phrases potentially having two different meanings. I appreciate you, brother.

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Glenn DeVore's avatar

Thank you. This means a lot.

It is wild, isn’t it? How the same word can carry entirely different meanings depending on who's holding it, where they’ve been, what they’re feeling.

Sometimes I think half of connection is just learning how someone else uses their words, and the other half is being willing to pause before we assume we know.

I so appreciate you seeing that here.

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✨MindShift Musings✨'s avatar

Yes, it blows my mind all of the time. A simple phrase can have a completely different meaning depending on who's saying it.

I'm not fond of assumptions but I'm sure I do it more than I know. I often use the strategy of curiosity along with asking questions to clarify. I've just seen this dual meaning thing happen far too often and good communication and connection is important to me.

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Nicola Miller's avatar

"To hold form or fall back into the formless." I love this.

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Glenn DeVore's avatar

Thank you, Nicola.

There’s something about that edge. Somewhere between structure and surrender that keeps showing up in my life lately. And it creeps into my writing. I'm so glad that line resonated.

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Earthstar One's avatar

Freedom is indeed such a fraught goal! Including what it means to repair misunderstand, and be free together through language. I appreciate your ample compassion for the pervasive struggles over language that tend to so painfully ensnare us.

To said semantic despair, I say, though, what seems more true is that confusion is all that stands in the way...

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And language…

released from confusion — melted.

We watched it alight in the silence.

Every word, every meaning, revealed

in its own puzzle.

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Glenn DeVore's avatar

Freedom really is a fraught goal. Well said!

And yes, freedom not as escape, but as shared release. never found in perfect clarity (is there really such a thing), but in the willingness to sit inside the puzzle together.

I love the rewrite of your stanza. It's such a wonderful alternative ending.

Thank you, Earthstar.

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