{"id":1257,"date":"2019-06-26T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T14:48:22","slug":"changing-the-world-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/changing-the-world-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the World with Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Say a word. Any word. Something comes to mind.
\nAn image, a feeling, a context…
\nWe hear some words as neutral.
\nSome words are so loaded that our reactions are visceral.
\nWe reject the concept or feel the sucker-punch in our gut.
\nAnd sometimes we feel the expansion of warmth and light in our chest.<\/p>\n

Words are one of humanity’s most important tools of communication.
\nAs a person who loves words\u00a0I like to make them dance and sing, hunch and cry… I like to toss them into the air\u00a0and watch to see where they land.
\nI also approach them tentatively, having some sense their power.
\nAnd then there are times I forget everything I know about words.<\/p>\n

Like when I say the word Godde.
\nIt’s such a loaded word, filled with judgment, fear, joy, love, distaste…
\nThe word ‘Godde’ (and I use it a lot in my profession) is packed with more than issues of gender and hierarchy.
\nSomehow, my religious\/spiritual education eluded the image of the old, white man with a beard sitting on a throne, flinging judgment at humanity.
\nInstead, to invoke ‘Godde’ with a word takes my breath away. My chest fills with warmth and my heart expands to embrace a Mystery my mind cannot fathom.<\/p>\n

The seminal questions becomes: “How do I bridge the divide between the word I speak and the word that is received?”.
\nI don’t have any answers yet except that I will always need more words to talk about the big words, more words to draw pictures, shape images, invite responses. More words to talk about something that is beyond words. Though perhaps Jewish wisdom is the best response: the name of Godde is unspeakable.
\nStill, I will keep trying to talk about Godde because when hearts and minds open
\nto different rhythms and sounds, ideas and images, it can change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say a word. Any word. Something comes to mind. An image, a feeling, a context… We hear some words as neutral. Some words are so loaded that our reactions are visceral. We reject the concept or feel the sucker-punch in our gut. And sometimes we feel the expansion of warmth and light in our chest. … Continue reading Changing the World with Words<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,13,24,8,21,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}