Naming
Perhaps the most fundamental use of a word is the act of naming. Is it the oldest? In a future primitive sense, is naming an act of expansion for a mind engaged with an environment, or the first separation between self and the land? It certainly proves an act of translation. For what exists, exists regardless from what it is called (we’ve been here before, like wildflowers). Naming, in an attempt to focus presence, can actually pull even further from the essence of that which is named. It involves perspective. It can alienate.
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