{"id":12759,"date":"2021-07-05T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:12:12","slug":"being-the-ear-in-fear-to-hear-spirit-during-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2021\/07\/05\/being-the-ear-in-fear-to-hear-spirit-during-corona\/","title":{"rendered":"Being The Ear In Fear To Hear Spirit, During Corona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A&nbsp;RAPTalk&nbsp;by Susan K Furness, Senior Associate, Edgewalkers International<\/strong><br><br>The dictionary expanded in 2020<br>The likes of CoVid, Corona, Nuovo-Virus and the Curve<br>New words like new kids making their presence fast known<br><br>On every corner of every block, at first causing a block in understanding<br>Yet fast copulating information, like a block-chain in action<br>Sparking a common question to be spoken out loud<br><br>What on earth is happening? In London, in Baku, in Wuhan, in Auckland, in New York, in Milan and now rolling in India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igniting conversation, stirring debate, diluting hate<br>Igniting camaraderie, stirring emotion, diluting inventory on supermarket shelves<br>Until \u2018to grab\u2019 was fast called out<br><br>As sharing becomes caring<br>And abundance becomes good health, a full heart and not a full cupboard<br>The Ear in Fear fast attunes our listening<br><br>As a world full of leaders exercises muscles long dormant<br>Straggling behind in the viral Marathon<br>As CoVid makes moves beating Beckham\u2019s best bends<br><br>Pressing professors, peculating researchers, causing presidents and politicians to shine in the mis-art of pontification<br>Stressing economies, taking out businesses, making headlines but not breaking spirit<br><br>As corona flows, so spirit ferments<br>Attracting new communities to join in prayer in chapels on Zoom<br>Causing window kissing grandma to #trend way ahead of the heady days of window shopping<br>Positioning plucky pensioners as the new maestros of meaningful crowd funding<br><br>But, what on earth is happening?<br>What is happening on Earth?<br>Those who know they don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know, know that this too will pass, it will all be alright in the end.<br>And, if it\u2019s not all right, it\u2019s not the end.<br>This time in time is the gift of a new beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;RAPTalk&nbsp;by Susan K Furness, Senior Associate, Edgewalkers International The dictionary expanded in 2020The likes of CoVid, Corona, Nuovo-Virus and the CurveNew words like new kids making their presence fast known On every corner of every block, at first causing a block in understandingYet fast copulating information, like a block-chain in actionSparking a common question to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}