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My Word of the Year
"My word of the year is listen. Its one of those words whose meaning is
in its music. Listen is a quiet word, that half swallowed L and
diffident I and softly hissing S. It defies the clamorous words it
absorbs, the words that have defined this year, the shouts and roars,
the bray and bluster. Listening is hard when the sounds around us grow
mean and ugly. And listening takes particular courage in divisive
times." Nancy Gibbs shares more in this evocative passage.
