I’m a “word” person, but not a professional.
I’m encouraged when I find someone who uses them better.
I take the time to learn from their use of words.
There’s hope! My words can improve – for me, the writer, and the reader, whoever you are.
Words are our salvation.
Writing them shows we have thoughts worth sharing.
Reading them shows we are always looking for input.
Encouragement. Challenge. Growth. Correction.
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
~ Carl Sagan [Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
I read for words. The experience of where I learn from the Sagan Magic notation.
I never enjoyed comic books as much as a good mystery story.
Any pictures I need are found in my mind, and when new data suggests something different?
I rearrange what I imagined, rethink the scenario, and voila! All is right with the “words.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
~Rudyard Kipling
I’m thankful for digital books connected to a dictionary or other search engines.
I will not pass what I do not know – instant search!
Enlightenment. Knowledge. Usage.
Highlighted and stored for another day and time.
Why highlight? I never read a book once.
Think that one through with me.
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Words are revelatory.
You are the words you use because they show the words you grew up with.
Words show your expansion in the space you occupy.
Hopefully, you’ll keep expanding into new worlds of words.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
~Jesus (John 6:63 NKJV)
Readily, I admit there are some words more important than others.
Words open doors, but not all doors need to be explored.
If words are magical, a drug, or an x-ray (previous quotes)…
Then some words are life-giving, and some are not.
One last thought, and I’m sure you’ll appreciate.
Words are great for the internal process of growing
But they are sometimes difficult to trot out in public.
Try your words out. You’ll be surprised at the response you garner.