I think language is failing me or I'm just a failure at language. Maybe it's tone that I fail to accurately convey? I'm playful and light and it's incorrectly identified as a jab that needs to be defended or lack of awareness on my part. I'm serious and the hearer goes into joke mode.
And what's all the more humorous is I'm a language teacher. I help students analyze language, tone, word choice, an author's use of specific strategies for a specific rhetorical function. Yet, I can't seem to effectively apply appropriate language use for my own target audience(s).
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My musings on the journey are neatly wrapped in on-statements, on being, on loving, on teaching… As Joan Didion wrote in “Why I Write,” I write to make sense of the pictures in my head, to learn about myself, to find out what I’m thinking, why I overuse ellipses and share (or impose myself on others). Maybe by writing I can make sense of things, slow down, relax, and enjoy the journey more (and maybe help you to also).
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- Y. Green Pittman
- I am a mother of two boys, an inquisitive, intelligent 8 year old and a charismatic, comedic 2 year old. I'm a mother of a myriad of high school students who delight me. I'm doing my best to enjoy this journey of mothering, living and learning.
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