she fed me clothed me kept me safe albeit in excess five layers in spite of subtropical winter heat so much to eat I needed digestive pills to ward off the stomach’s sharp protest how not to utter the un- grateful thing: that I am irrevocably her object that the poet who wrote this saved my life: Sometimes, parents & children become the most common of strangers Eventually, a street appears where they can meet again How I wished that street would appear I kept trying to make her proud of my acumen for language these words have not been for nothing I wrote to find the street where we might meet again & now there is relief guilt or blame but they are nearly always misplaced you are born into the slip- stream of your mother’s unconscious if someone had told her that the last thing a young mother needs is false decency courage & cheer she might not have hurt us both but what to do with remorse & love that comes unbidden like a generous rain how to accept her care after the storm is there a point at which the mother is redeemed the child forgiven can the origin story be re-told transfigured into the version where the garden is always paradise & no one need ever fall out of grace
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Let's learn some different ways of learning Rather than watering subjects down to make them more accessible, we can combine medieval practices in memory with virtual reality to unlock spatial learning, and empower people everywhere to learn large and complex subjects - such as languages - with ease. Ralby is founder and CEO of Linguisticator, a Cambridge-based company developing online memory and language training programs. He has successfully explored the use of medieval memory techniques and, more recently, spatial memory techniques for children and adults with special educational needs such as dyslexia and autism. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx