Language & Region
Your openness to engaging with other cultures, languages, and perspectives — including those native to someone else's lived experience.
Miriam Toews and Her Silent Son Owen
Language & Region is about engaging with someone else's native way of experiencing and expressing things. Miriam Toews was fluent in verbal, emotionally expressive communication — that was her region. Owen operated in silence, music, and gesture. When Miriam deliberately shifted into his language — sitting quietly, sighing, not demanding a response — she crossed into his region for the first time, and he met her there.