What is the value of a word?
For me, they are among the most powerful creations we have.
I am as passionate about words as some are about sports, or children, or cooking, or any other of a number of pursuits. I love words--the way they roll off the tongues of other people, the way they crash, and bump, and settle into each other--to form pictures, to create thought. It's beautiful and messy and often brutal, but it has worked since the beginnings of language itself.
Words inspire us, help us transcend. They break our hearts and they uplift our spirits. With them we injure. With them we heal. Words are mutable and yet constant. They mark permanent places in time, and yet, long after we are nothing more than nameless faces hidden behind dusty frames, what we have written can reach through time and still touch lives.
Words correct and words demand. They hold accountable. And they also wash over us in languid tones that let us know that we are in fact on the right path, that all is OK, that WE are OK.
And so, that you are here, reading these words is incredibly gratifying. I thank you kindly.
"If you build it, they will come....." Field of Dreams
(and here you are)
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