Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hi, guys, for today's For The Good of the Order, I thought I would share some thoughts

about word choice.

It's super powerful.

We know this from like, I don't know, a legal immigrant versus undocumented worker.

It's a great example where, you know, there's one way of phrasing it that makes people

sound like criminals and another way of phrasing it that makes people sound like very hard

workers who are pretty important to the economy and just need a piece of paper.

And this happens, of course, all day long, and it's happening to us, and it's one of those

things where a little media literacy goes a long way.

Like, to the extent that we're aware that things are being colored and phrased in certain

ways to make us feel certain emotions and have certain reactions, we can be slightly more

in control of our reaction to the days events.

And so, of course, I've been aware of this, and I'm sure you have two for years and years.

I'm a grown woman, I've taken a lot of media, and I know that how we say things matters,

although I'm not always alert to it, of course.

But then recently, I was preparing to talk to a guy named Baratunde Thurston, who's

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