I've been giving a lot of thought to language today; for some reason, I was awake at 4:00 AM, with words already forming in pre-dawn understanding.
We live with words, surrounded by them every day, in spoken and written form, in thought, in music lyrics, in directions and admonishments, under our skin and over our heads.
They evoke thought, images, ideas, emotions. We use them to persuade, to show love, to wound, to cage and to free ourselves and others.
They fall short of our meaning, yet there are always more to learn, better ways to use them, new ways to string them together like pearls on a wire or drops of water on a spiderweb...
They populate passionate whispers and strident shouts. They play in sun puddles like lazy cats and soothe us to sleep in mantras.
And all we need to do is read, write and speak them with presence and consciousness, not throwing them away, not wasting them or using them the wrong way...
Language is our expression of human being-ness. What is the smallest thing you will do today to unlock your own word magic?
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