Words Are Like Candy
The more I write, the more words are becoming like beings with feelings. I have more sensitivity towards words. I have more respect and understanding of words and how they fit in sentences and in our lives.
If I were still teaching grammar and syntax to my classes, I would have so much more to say about language now. I feel that nouns and verbs and all the parts of speech are more like a family, and how they get along with each other matters.
In speech, I am often not faithful to antecedents, you know, the noun that a pronoun refers to. In conversation, I will change pronouns from he to she without even saying the noun in the first place, and often it's a miracle that someone can follow who or what I'm talking about.
In writing, in writing this very blog, I find that words take on human qualities. I sense that nouns prefer their own name over pronouns. Nouns don't so much want to be him or her or them or he or she or they. It's like the noun is really their name, and they like to be called by their name rather than him or her or it. It's like using the real name connotes respect, and not using the real name is more like saying: "Hey, you." This may seem silly, yet this is how it seems to me.
I am feeling that words are like delicious candies that melt in your mouth. The different parts of speech are different candies, each important, each part of speech being the specialness of the candy it is.
Prepositions which are little words give me trouble. Which is correct in the following? Be at peace, or be in peace. I have had difficulty knowing when to use in or on. It would seem obvious, yet not always. Is it in Heaven as it is on Earth?
I had always learned and taught my classes to use as few adjective and adverbs as possible because adjectives and adverbs are not strong at all. Nouns and verbs are the strongest. Adjectives and adverbs are like the drums in a concert and come in for special emphasis. They stand out. They are like queens who make only special appearances. If queens were around all the time, they wouldn't be so noteworthy. Adjectives and adverbs like to be held in reserve and come out only for special circumstances.
Conjunctions are joiners. They like to unite. They are a little like enablers in life. And is an equalizer. I like and because it includes and never excludes. And reveals abundance.
I have learned to avoid but as much as possible because but is a weakener. The clause before it is usually strong, and then but undercuts it.
I feel compassion for words and how they serve us. I think words and I have a pretty good relationship.
Do you like words as much as I do?
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Oh yes. Words are the birth of our thoughts. The elegant turn of a phrase, like "words are like delicious candies that melt in your mouth," evoke all the senses. I see the candy, smell the sweetness and taste it as I feel it melting in my mouth.
While a picture may be worth a thousands words, I sometimes prefer the thousand words so my mind can make the picture.
Words carry magic. In fairytales there is always a formula you have to discover or recall. Words are a link between the inner and the outer and reality shapes itself according to the sound of each word. I sense that if I could speak only in verses I would live in Wonderland. " At the beginning it was the Word".
Reading your writing makes me like words a whole lot!
Thanks dearest Gloria for this beautiful post about words.
Like you I love them very much
and did put this quote on my FB profile
La conscience des mots amène à la conscience de soi: à se connaître, à se reconnaître.
[ Octavio Paz ]
a free translation gives:
The conscience of words leads to self-consciousness: to know, to recognize oneself.
[Octavio Paz]
Lots of LOVE from HK
Wishing you A HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY !
AM
thanking you deeply for the inspirations you are offering us daily
leading to audacious experiences like this http://amvideo.multiply.com/ :)
I have a funny relationship with words. I work with them, thanks to the translations I do, but at the same time I feel that they are not at all important. Often they lead you astray from your true essence, which is your Heart.
I think it's not a coincidence that this morning, in answer to a specific question, the Cosmic Heavenletter Generator would give me the Heavenletter #268 'Words':
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Words are the dueling swords of argument.
I want to tell you: words are nothing at all. They are will-o'-the-wisps.
Sometimes words represent truth. Often they do not.
How many times have the words "I love you" been said when they were not truth? Truth does not have to be said. In fact, Truth cannot be spoken. Only a facsimile of Truth can be spoken. And Truth is not argued. Ego is.
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Wow, Paula! I suppose words are like anything else in the relative world. We play with them -- ike mud, sand, paints, music...
Beloved AM, listening to you read the Heavenletter What If You Loved was one of the most charming experiences of my life. YOur reading really made a difference in my understanding this Heavenletter. I will watch this video again and listen more to your sweet voice. Will you make more videos?
And now I have learned that Youtube isn't the only place to make videos.
Thank you so much, Anne-Marie.
Yes, Glorita. Especialy when, like Paula, you notice how words "lead you astray". What could be more useful? When the words leading you astray are others' words, you simply forget them. But you are clearer afterwards. When they are your own, you cross them out or apologize and start anew – or leave it to tomorrow to give you better words or none at all which is very often the best solution. In any event, you are clearer afterwards. Well, perhaps that's what Paula is saying anyway.