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I've been in discussions with my friends from Swan Valley Connections, who do winter tracking classes (I took one this winter and now want to take All Of Them), for a couple years now about doing a workshop focused on tracks as storytelling. I plan to take it up with them again to make plans for next winter. What a timely post then on your part! I didn't know this bit of information as it relates to written language but it makes such excellent and perfect sense.

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Mar 21, 2023Liked by Freya Rohn

Freya,

I think differently each time I read your work. Thank you for that.

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Can't tell you how much I love Alarcon. He might be my favorite poet.

I'm guessing since you lived in Europe you might have been to the British Museum and seen the Rosetta Stone? It's such a fascinating, obsessive thing: no matter how banal the content, it's clear evidence that people want to communicate with one another. The fact that it draws such crowds partly attests to that reality.

Language obviously fascinates me, being a copy editor, but it's the communication aspect that gets me most. Not written language really, but how people seek to understand, and be understood. To impart meaning to one another, and to ourselves about the world. Maybe it's odd, but the more I think about that, somehow the less the written aspect draws me. Which often feels weird, and yet not. This was beautiful. And also makes me wonder, as I often do, what water calls itself.

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