{"id":5339,"date":"2022-06-07T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:34:06","slug":"loving-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/2022\/06\/loving-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>after Thich Nhat Hanh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We speak all day \u2013<br \/>through screens,<br \/>through messages,<br \/>through the noise<br \/>of being connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And still,<br \/>we can be lonely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words can wound,<br \/>or they can water flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A kind sentence,<br \/>a gentle reply,<br \/>even a letter<br \/>never sent,<br \/>can soften<br \/>something inside us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I sit<br \/>away from the screen,<br \/>and remember<br \/>the breath \u2013<br \/>in,<br \/>out,<br \/>the quiet conversation<br \/>beneath all the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing to prove.<br \/>Nothing to answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only this moment,<br \/>and the possibility<br \/>of choosing words<br \/>with care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That night<br \/>I fell asleep listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the morning<br \/>I woke<br \/>feeling lighter,<br \/>as though somewhere<br \/>in the dark<br \/>something had been<br \/>quietly watered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem grew from reading Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s reflections on communication \u2013 the idea that our words can either wound or nurture, and that kindness begins with how we choose to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}