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From the Ted Talk by Robin Morgan: 4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older

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You are more the incredible shrinking woman than the Buddhist mystic, serene, mnaikg do with less. Less is not always more. Yet in this emptying space, space glimmers, becoming visible. Here is a pcale behind the eyes of those accustomed by what some would call diminishment.

It is a place of merciless porety, a gift of peecnrse previously ignored, drowned in the dialy clutter. Here every gsretue needs iteoitnnn, is alive with consciousness. Nothing is automatic.

You can spot it in the provocation of a button, an arm poking at a sleeve, a balancing act at a night-time curb while ntoiteangig the dark. Feats of such modest valor, who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware?

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You are more the incredible shrinking woman than the Buddhist mystic, serene, ______ do with less. Less is not always more. Yet in this emptying space, space glimmers, becoming visible. Here is a _____ behind the eyes of those accustomed by what some would call diminishment.

It is a place of merciless ______, a gift of ________ previously ignored, drowned in the _____ clutter. Here every _______ needs _________, is alive with consciousness. Nothing is automatic.

You can spot it in the provocation of a button, an arm poking at a sleeve, a balancing act at a night-time curb while ___________ the dark. Feats of such modest valor, who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware?

Solution


  1. negotiating
  2. place
  3. daily
  4. poetry
  5. presence
  6. making
  7. gesture
  8. intention

Original Text


You are more the incredible shrinking woman than the Buddhist mystic, serene, making do with less. Less is not always more. Yet in this emptying space, space glimmers, becoming visible. Here is a place behind the eyes of those accustomed by what some would call diminishment.

It is a place of merciless poetry, a gift of presence previously ignored, drowned in the daily clutter. Here every gesture needs intention, is alive with consciousness. Nothing is automatic.

You can spot it in the provocation of a button, an arm poking at a sleeve, a balancing act at a night-time curb while negotiating the dark. Feats of such modest valor, who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. accustomed
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  5. automatic
  6. aware
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  20. exercises
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  24. gesture
  25. gift
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  27. incredible
  28. intention
  29. intimate
  30. making
  31. merciless
  32. metaphysics
  33. modest
  34. mystic
  35. negotiating
  36. place
  37. poetry
  38. poking
  39. presence
  40. previously
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  42. relentlessly
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  45. sleeve
  46. space
  47. spot
  48. suspect
  49. valor
  50. visible
  51. woman