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Way back in 2024 experimenting with different forms of 'languaging' happened. Daily presenting me with a different kind of challenge, one day was using verbs rather than nouns. I began 'kinning' as a result, adding the word 'kin' to the name of nouns deliberately, recognizing the energy of every apparent 'thing' and our connection. Many of my friends still call me 'Lizzie-kin' and I respond similarly to 'Helen-kin', 'Zoe-kin'. Why? The poetical below is better at explaining than noun-infested prose! EXPLAINING VERBING AND KINNING Let us be free of the shackles of noun-ing drink in ‘communing’, and longed-for wild ‘towning’ Let ‘moving’ stay fluid beyond what it gets called – ‘a movement’ – which is inevitably walled hauled in and strangled by its own non sequitur never quite what we might infer life is too fluid to be ‘this’ and yet for now it is ‘that’ – for ease we speak of ‘the homeless’, ‘dandelion’ or ‘knat’ making ‘kin’ a thing from which we are apart what might connect us?…

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