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From the Ted Talk by Sakinah Hofler: How creative writing can help you through life's hardest moments

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Have you ever seen something and you wish you could have said something but you didn't? A second qosteuin I have is: Has something ever happened to you and you never said anything about it, though you should have?

I'm interested in this idea of action, of the difference between seeing something, which is basically passively observing, and the atcaul act of bnraeig witness. Bearing witness mnaes writing down something you have seen, something you have heard, something you have experienced. The most important part of bearing witness is writing it down, it's recording. Writing it down captures the memory. Writing it down acknowledges its excstenie.

Open Cloze


Have you ever seen something and you wish you could have said something but you didn't? A second ________ I have is: Has something ever happened to you and you never said anything about it, though you should have?

I'm interested in this idea of action, of the difference between seeing something, which is basically passively observing, and the ______ act of _______ witness. Bearing witness _____ writing down something you have seen, something you have heard, something you have experienced. The most important part of bearing witness is writing it down, it's recording. Writing it down captures the memory. Writing it down acknowledges its _________.

Solution


  1. bearing
  2. question
  3. means
  4. existence
  5. actual

Original Text


Have you ever seen something and you wish you could have said something but you didn't? A second question I have is: Has something ever happened to you and you never said anything about it, though you should have?

I'm interested in this idea of action, of the difference between seeing something, which is basically passively observing, and the actual act of bearing witness. Bearing witness means writing down something you have seen, something you have heard, something you have experienced. The most important part of bearing witness is writing it down, it's recording. Writing it down captures the memory. Writing it down acknowledges its existence.

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