Moonstruck!
a short-short🩳 seasonal postcard
Just this summer-Sunday greeting…
… and a couple of words.
Today’s newShrink postcard adds a new word(s)-of-the-week feature for pondering and possible future discussion. This one’s a phrase that has stuck in my head and keeps surfacing. It was a passing, well-used reference from a friend in interesting lunch-conversation a couple of weeks ago.
The concept is intriguing from perspectives of psychology as well as news, cultural and historic contexts. Consciously or not, it’s something we all do, even take pride in, teach to our children and grands. We reward it culturally, often lucratively, when it’s done well.
Given that, it seems important and useful for more of us, more often, to know how and do it consciously. It requires intentional awareness, self-observation, maybe sometimes wrestling with our own motivations that we wish did not drive us.
These aren’t exactly trending things these days! Maybe a few definitions and concepts can at least be a start.
With this week’s presidential-campaign debate and the news-scape to navigate in months ahead, this one’s likely to resurface in more newShrink discussion later.
Meanwhile, see what if anything it brings to mind for you as you follow issues, events and people in the news. As always, I love hearing your examples, questions, thoughts… and welcome satire/humor in these times.
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(The source here is plain old Encyclopedia Britannica.)
word(s)-of-the-week
code-switch/code-switching:
The process of shifting from using one pattern of language, choice of terms or dialect to another, depending on social or political context, relationships or conversational setting.
And, that is all I have for now! Talk to you soon.
🦋💙 tish
… it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
— William Stafford, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”
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