{"id":1267,"date":"2011-03-28T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-03-28T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:24:12","slug":"sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/28\/sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/28a-peaceful1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" title=\"28a.peaceful\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/28a-peaceful1.jpg?resize=576%2C167\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My son and I are taking American Sign Language at the Community College in our area.\u00a0 We are on our second semester and will be taking a Summer intensive this June.\u00a0 Like any language there is a lot of memorizing vocabulary.\u00a0 What makes learning sign language so different from my past adventures in learning language (German and Spanish) is that this is in the body.\u00a0 Our educational structure in general relies heavily on auditory learning and learning languages in particular is loaded with listening and hearing, tuning your ear to an unfamiliar language.\u00a0 But Sign language is not like that.\u00a0 A different brain leap has to happen between your thoughts and your body.\u00a0 It has been a fascinating and humbling experience.\u00a0 Along with learning the vocabulary we are learning about deaf culture as well, though documentaries and question and answer times with our deaf instructor.\u00a0 The deaf community is strong, lively and independent.\u00a0 Recently we watched a movie called \u201cSound and the Fury\u201d which was shown at film festivals in the early 2000\u2019s and on PBS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/soundandfury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/soundandfury\/<\/a>).\u00a0 The documentary explores two families&#8217; struggles as they look at cochlear implants for their children.\u00a0 It is very compelling, and I recommend you seek it out.\u00a0 In any event after the showing in our class our instructor took questions.\u00a0 She is very clear, she does not need &#8220;fixing&#8221; and if she were offered a pill to give her hearing today she would not take it.\u00a0 \u201cIt is very peaceful being deaf, why would I give that up?\u201d\u00a0 One of the deaf people in the documentary shared a similar sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>This is has intrigued me ever since, so this week I want to explore the idea of the peacefulness of silence. 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