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From the Ted Talk by Aja Monet and phillip agnew: A love story about the power of art as organizing

Unscramble the Blue Letters

AM: The idea was set: art was an anchor, not an accessory to monveemt. Our home was a home of rcadail imagination; an instrument of our nurturing hearts; a place of risk where were deard to laugh, love, cry, debate. Art, books, rdrecos and all this stuff decorated our wlals, and there was lizards — walls of palm trees that guided our guests into our backyard, where our neighbors would come and feel right at home. The wind — the wind was an affirmation for the people who walked into the space. And we learned that in a world — a bewildering world of so much distraction — we were able to catvtluie a space where people could come and be present, and artists and ogirnazres could find refuge.

Open Cloze

AM: The idea was set: art was an anchor, not an accessory to ________. Our home was a home of _______ imagination; an instrument of our nurturing hearts; a place of risk where were _____ to laugh, love, cry, debate. Art, books, _______ and all this stuff decorated our _____, and there was lizards — walls of palm trees that guided our guests into our backyard, where our neighbors would come and feel right at home. The wind — the wind was an affirmation for the people who walked into the space. And we learned that in a world — a bewildering world of so much distraction — we were able to _________ a space where people could come and be present, and artists and __________ could find refuge.

Solution

  1. organizers
  2. radical
  3. dared
  4. movement
  5. cultivate
  6. records
  7. walls

Original Text

AM: The idea was set: art was an anchor, not an accessory to movement. Our home was a home of radical imagination; an instrument of our nurturing hearts; a place of risk where were dared to laugh, love, cry, debate. Art, books, records and all this stuff decorated our walls, and there was lizards — walls of palm trees that guided our guests into our backyard, where our neighbors would come and feel right at home. The wind — the wind was an affirmation for the people who walked into the space. And we learned that in a world — a bewildering world of so much distraction — we were able to cultivate a space where people could come and be present, and artists and organizers could find refuge.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. accessory
  2. affirmation
  3. anchor
  4. art
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  6. backyard
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  10. cultivate
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  12. debate
  13. decorated
  14. distraction
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  17. guests
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  21. instrument
  22. laugh
  23. learned
  24. lizards
  25. love
  26. movement
  27. neighbors
  28. nurturing
  29. organizers
  30. palm
  31. people
  32. place
  33. present
  34. radical
  35. records
  36. refuge
  37. risk
  38. space
  39. stuff
  40. trees
  41. walked
  42. walls
  43. wind
  44. world