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From the Ted Talk by Kitra Cahana: My father, locked in his body but soaring free

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Kitra Cahana: For most of us, our muscles begin to twitch and move long before we are conscious, but my father tlles me his privilege is living on the far periphery of the human experience. Like an aarnoutst who sees a perspective that very few of us will ever get to share, he wonders and watches as he takes his first breaths and dreams about crawling back home. So binges life at 57, he says. A toddler has no attitude in its being, but a man insists on his wrold every day.

Few of us will ever have to face physical ltonitiaims to the degree that my father has, but we will all have moments of paralysis in our lives. I know I frequently cnrnooft walls that feel cmelplotey unscalable, but my father insists that there are no dead ends. Instead, he invites me into his space of co-healing to give the very best of myself, and for him to give the very best of himself to me. Paralysis was an opening for him. It was an opprituonty to emerge, to rkedline life force, to sit still long enough with himself so as to fall in love with the full continuum of critoaen.

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Kitra Cahana: For most of us, our muscles begin to twitch and move long before we are conscious, but my father _____ me his privilege is living on the far periphery of the human experience. Like an _________ who sees a perspective that very few of us will ever get to share, he wonders and watches as he takes his first breaths and dreams about crawling back home. So ______ life at 57, he says. A toddler has no attitude in its being, but a man insists on his _____ every day.

Few of us will ever have to face physical ___________ to the degree that my father has, but we will all have moments of paralysis in our lives. I know I frequently ________ walls that feel __________ unscalable, but my father insists that there are no dead ends. Instead, he invites me into his space of co-healing to give the very best of myself, and for him to give the very best of himself to me. Paralysis was an opening for him. It was an ___________ to emerge, to ________ life force, to sit still long enough with himself so as to fall in love with the full continuum of ________.

Solution


  1. astronaut
  2. opportunity
  3. creation
  4. world
  5. limitations
  6. completely
  7. tells
  8. rekindle
  9. begins
  10. confront

Original Text


Kitra Cahana: For most of us, our muscles begin to twitch and move long before we are conscious, but my father tells me his privilege is living on the far periphery of the human experience. Like an astronaut who sees a perspective that very few of us will ever get to share, he wonders and watches as he takes his first breaths and dreams about crawling back home. So begins life at 57, he says. A toddler has no attitude in its being, but a man insists on his world every day.

Few of us will ever have to face physical limitations to the degree that my father has, but we will all have moments of paralysis in our lives. I know I frequently confront walls that feel completely unscalable, but my father insists that there are no dead ends. Instead, he invites me into his space of co-healing to give the very best of myself, and for him to give the very best of himself to me. Paralysis was an opening for him. It was an opportunity to emerge, to rekindle life force, to sit still long enough with himself so as to fall in love with the full continuum of creation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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toes kissing 2
breathing machine 2
muscle resistance 2


Important Words


  1. astronaut
  2. attitude
  3. begins
  4. breaths
  5. completely
  6. confront
  7. conscious
  8. continuum
  9. crawling
  10. creation
  11. day
  12. dead
  13. degree
  14. dreams
  15. emerge
  16. ends
  17. experience
  18. face
  19. fall
  20. father
  21. feel
  22. force
  23. frequently
  24. full
  25. give
  26. home
  27. human
  28. insists
  29. invites
  30. kitra
  31. life
  32. limitations
  33. lives
  34. living
  35. long
  36. love
  37. man
  38. moments
  39. move
  40. muscles
  41. opening
  42. opportunity
  43. paralysis
  44. periphery
  45. perspective
  46. physical
  47. privilege
  48. rekindle
  49. sees
  50. share
  51. sit
  52. space
  53. takes
  54. tells
  55. toddler
  56. twitch
  57. unscalable
  58. walls
  59. watches
  60. wonders
  61. world