The following conversation, or something like it takes place in homes around the world. “Dad, will you get it for me?” “Yes, I will get it.” “Oh will you, Daddy?” “Yes, I will, I just said I would.” “Ahhhh do you promise, Daddy” “Yes, I promise.” “Ohhhh do you are you really going to do […]
Read More M.O.T.H. You Can Take My Word For ItDomineering, nagging and suffocating. Day after day he would have to endure her with her attitude. She never touched him physically, but every time she opened her mouth to say something to him, it felt like daggers piercing him. On and on she would go. Relentless in her demands. Unrelenting in letting him know just […]
Read More Power of Words – Eroding or Enhancing?It is often my actions that betray me. The talk is good, but what is it in the actions that indicates there’s agreement between words and deed? That’s on an individual level, you can see how it works on a community level. Unity of purpose and expression of what we want is sometimes the same […]
Read More A Matter of Integrity: Show and TellHe’s a writer. If his talk is anything to go by, he’s a very good writer. In any case, he’s a writer and talks well about aspects of writing. He was speaking about the purpose of dialogue in performing arts and in writing. He said something I hadn’t paid proper attention to previously. Conversation and […]
Read More Disconnect and DialogueThere is something about the blank page that invites words. What kind of words and how that blank page will be filled appears daunting at first. It can be intimidating. So much can be written, but what should be written. What effect will it have to the reader? Will it really convey what the mind […]
Read More The Journal: Write On2016 has been another year of my growing appreciation for WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter, WordPress and other means of electronic communication. They have been means by which I have been a recipient of the word and been a conveyor of the word. The word has come in greatly through those means. It has been a reminder […]
Read More December Thanks #28: CommunicationThe very thought of living without words is weird to me. That which I visualise and capture aurally I only know to express through the method of words. Spoken and written, read and heard, rich though the textures of life are beyond words, there is something powerful about the exercising of words. I was sitting […]
Read More December Thanks #05: WordsMy handwriting at school was very close to awful. It was obviously legible enough to give teachers the impression I knew what was going on, but I am fairly certain I helped a number of those teachers need glasses such was the squinting and the working out what was what. All that handwriting and joined […]
Read More The Writer ThingIn as much as there’s no clear and defined GOAL OF THE YEAR for me in 2016. It has been very interesting thus far in terms of the Word and words. I don’t class myself as a scholar, but I would consider myself to be a student. What’s the difference? Spelling and advancement in the […]
Read More Renewed Love of the Word and WordsRecently I have been reminded of how it’s worth reviewing a term or phrase so that it doesn’t always trigger a negative connotation. Take the word ‘judgment’. I am sure a number of people would literally like to do that. This is usually because of the bad rep the word has. Judgment – a decision […]
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