{"id":210,"date":"2023-09-11T06:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2023-11-20T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:16:15","slug":"if-youve-got-to-go-somewhere-then-you-better-go-somewhere-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"word poem: am\u00b7\u200bbi\u00b7\u200bgu\u00b7\u200bi\u00b7\u200bty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>am\u00b7\u200bbi\u00b7\u200bgu\u00b7\u200bi\u00b7\u200bty&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/ambiguity?pronunciation&amp;lang=en_us&amp;dir=a&amp;file=ambigu01\">\u02ccam-b\u0259-\u02c8gy\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>the quality or state of being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/ambiguous\">ambiguous<\/a>&nbsp;especially in meaning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;<em>ambiguity<\/em>&nbsp;of the poem allows several interpretations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways&nbsp;<strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>an ambiguous word or expression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/uncertainty\">UNCERTAINTY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Merriam-Webster)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0087-1024x579.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0087-1024x579.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0087-300x170.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0087-768x434.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0087-624x353.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0087.jpeg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf you\u2019ve got to go somewhere, then you better go somewhere far\u201d is text written over a white noise filter of a figure, from El Vy\u2019s \u201cReturn from the Moon music video.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Managing ambiguity is a soft skill I knew I needed to learn at work but the challenge is that it involves pushing through and persevering in spite of one of my biggest fears\u2014ambiguity, as in the opposite of clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0088-1024x306.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0088-1024x306.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0088-300x90.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0088-768x230.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0088-624x187.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0088.jpeg 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I always think about the \u201cuncertain\u201d definition of ambiguity but I forgot there was another definition that came first\u2014and that is the space where poetry may surface. I went on this trip to get uncomfortable and challenge my own ways of thinking. I\u2019m going to share more on this website, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mintjulips\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mintjulips\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JL-osaka-breakfast-cafe-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>am\u00b7\u200bbi\u00b7\u200bgu\u00b7\u200bi\u00b7\u200bty&nbsp;\u02ccam-b\u0259-\u02c8gy\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113&nbsp; 1 a :&nbsp;the quality or state of being&nbsp;ambiguous&nbsp;especially in meaning \u201cThe&nbsp;ambiguity&nbsp;of the poem allows several interpretations.\u201d b :&nbsp;a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways&nbsp;:&nbsp;an ambiguous word or expression 2 :&nbsp;UNCERTAINTY (Merriam-Webster) \u201cIf you\u2019ve got to go somewhere, then you better go somewhere far\u201d is text written over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}