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The Monday Morning Memo

“The LORD said to Moses,
'Take the staff, and you
and your brother Aaron
gather the assembly together.

Speak to that rock
before their eyes and it
will pour out its water.
You will bring water out of the rock
for the community so they and
their livestock can drink.'
So Moses took the staff
from the LORD's presence,
just as he commanded him.”

– Numbers 20:7

 

 

 

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THERE IS NO WORD

There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that should have been bagged in double layers—so that before you are even out the door you feel the weight of the jug dragging the bag down, stretching the thin plastic handles longer and longer and you know it’s only a matter of time until the bottom suddenly splits.

There is no single, unimpeachable word for that vague sensation of something moving away from you as it exceeds its elastic capacity—which is too bad, because that is the word I would like to use to describe standing on the street chatting with an old friend as the awareness grows in me that he is no longer a friend, but only an acquaintance, a person with whom I never made the effort—until this moment, when as we say goodbye I think we share a feeling of relief, a recognition that we have reached the end of a pretense, though to tell the truth what I already am thinking about is my gratitude for language—how it will stretch just so much and no farther; how there are some holes it will not cover up; how it will move, if not inside, then around the circumference of almost anything—how, over the years, it has given me back all the hours and days, all the plodding love and faith, all the misunderstandings and secrets I have willingly poured into it.

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- Tony Hoagland, “There is No Word,” Application for Release from the Dream (2015)

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