Tag: meaning

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communication

Lost in Translation

I often write as reflection to other’s thoughts and words, as comments or critical remarks upon other ideas.  This tends to lead me more into my own meanings and worlds wrought of words.  This is a high-wire act of balancing on a fragile thread of meaning strung between the intended meaning of the original message, […]

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culture narrative

On Collective Grief

Celebrity death appears to allow many people to contextualise death, to understand it in a shared way, in a way that grounds the meaning of our lives in this shared narrative of culture and collective experience. We take our cues on grief and norms of behaviour from the collective narrative of culture…