In my lap is a booklet titled With For About: When words fail Glossary, a document as much about connection as it is about clarity. It opens with an invitation: ‘This glossary is intended as a playful and open-ended tool for conversation.’ Words like ‘care’, ‘interlocutor’, and ‘slow resistance’ fill the pages. They’re not fixed definitions but starting points, doorways into a shared understanding.
I’ve often lacked the language for my experiences, for the complexities that defy simple explanation. Here, I feel the opposite of that narrowing. This isn’t Orwell’s Newspeak. These words expand thought, creating a shared vocabulary, a foundation for the exchanges to come.
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