Posts Tagged ‘words’
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom
When Luci Swindoll told me one of her favorite inventions was the alphabet I knew we would always be friends. I love words. I’m a bonafide verbiage collector. I love small words like gnu, descriptive words like dollop, and filler words like thingamajigs and whatchamacallits. There’s something magical about lining up letters and finding the…
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Saying “no” is big girl work. It liberates. It protects. It boundaries. We forget we have options and sometimes we have to be reminded. Just because we said “yes” in the past doesn’t mean we can’t change our minds. If we say “yes” when we should say “no,” we set ourselves up for resentment and…
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I love words. Always have. They are powerful, important, influential, endearing, instructive, inspiring and tender. But like a kaleidoscpe when the cylinder is spun in the shadows and we see a dark and different design, so, too, words have the tainted potential to be devastating, defeating, derogatory, discriminating, demeaning and divisive. Look at this Proverb:…
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