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This issue explores WORD as more than text, treating it as something lived, worn, and imperfect. From words on garments to tattoos etched into skin, language moves with us. It shapes how we connect, including the mistakes we make using a second language and the unexpected clarity that comes from a limited vocabulary. Letters of encouragement, notes from editors, and everyday signs telling us how to act reveal its guiding presence. We also consider communication across time—lost languages, publishing books, and what remains when meaning shifts. Through these fragments, language becomes both bridge and barrier, opening space for connection, misreading, and discovery.
This issue explores WORD as more than text, treating it as something lived, worn, and imperfect. From words on garments to tattoos etched into skin, language moves with us. It shapes how we connect, including the mistakes we make using a second language and the unexpected clarity that comes from a limited vocabulary. Letters of encouragement, notes from editors, and everyday signs telling us how to act reveal its guiding presence. We also consider communication across time—lost languages, publishing books, and what remains when meaning shifts. Through these fragments, language becomes both bridge and barrier, opening space for connection, misreading, and discovery.