Tag Archives: language
FMM 2 17 17 Sweet Mouth
“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”~Charles Baudelaire. Welsh, it is often said, is the language of heaven. To be honest, it is mostly Welsh people who say this! It was my father’s first language, the language of home and church. It is a challenging language, full of strange sounds […]
FMM 4 29 16 Gained in Translation
“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer.”~Radhanath Swami. Language is a wonderful thing. It provides words which represent complex thoughts, symbols that identify objects and people, and allows us to express emotions and needs. All over the globe, individual tribes of prehistoric people […]
FMM 4 11 14 Barbed Words
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge I envy poets. They choose their words with care, sifting through adjectives and verbs until they find just the right one. A poem may be reworked and reworded; tweaked and tightened until it has just the right impact and effect. In real life […]
FMM 11 1 13 The weight of our words
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”~ Mother Teresa. When you think about our ability to communicate, human beings are amazing. We have evolved from grunting, finger pointing cavemen, to creators of iconic imagery and lyrical language. The human brain processes thoughts faster and more creatively than […]
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