827: Naming the Waves

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today’s poem is Naming the Waves by Alison Prine. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “The love language in today’s poem can be classified as “words of affirmation” — in this case, words that describe the seaside, but also the world that the speaker and their love share. It models a spirit of full immersion, one in which the power of seeing becomes a vow of commitment and a gorgeous illustration of affection.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

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0:00.0	I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.
0:20.1	I love the expression, love language.
0:23.4	If for nothing else but it's sound, it's alliteration.
0:28.2	I'm not sure when I first heard the phrase, but I do recall that distinct feeling of
0:33.9	friction when something new entered my orbit, something fresh to chew on.
0:40.7	The phrase leapt out because I love love and I love language.
0:48.7	Some people love the feeling of being in love, me too, but I love the feeling of being
0:54.7	loved into language.
0:57.2	This is an invitation into the world of communication that's not reliant on words.
1:04.4	The implication of love having its own multifaceted vocabularies in which we can strive to attain
1:13.4	proficiency sets a bar for me that I hope can only benefit those who wait for it.
1:22.8	I love.
1:25.2	My love language might be when my friends share their passions.
1:29.4	Where would I be without my friends geeking out on one thing or another?
1:34.7	They are generous with the infectious pitch of their enthusiasm.
1:40.2	When their voice is rise and the hands just tickulate wildly about some rare sighting
1:45.6	of a bird or an amazing new recipe, I want to immediately run out and undertake their
1:52.2	hobbies, their pastimes, their diversions.
1:57.5	Thanks to them, I go down rabbit holes and forge possibilities of engaging the world where
2:04.0	my imagination often lacks.
2:07.0	They text links to YouTube videos and send books in the mail.
2:11.5	They call with news of their latest discovery.
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