What makes us word-users?
“Words of course.” I hear you and I wholeheartedly agree. But how does that work? How do words make us word-users? I don’t know and I’m obviously not the only one. What I do know — seemingly the only one — is words didn’t exist when the world and you were born. There…
The purpose of words
The word-using animals have the wrong impression of the not-word-using animals. With this result: We have the equally wrong impression of ourselves. In the beginning is the word Fact, the children of all animals — whether word-using or not — arrive into this world…
Unforced blunders
Perhaps because we began to use words only 13,750 years ago, which is but a cosmic heartbeat ago, perfect is elusive for us word-users. I could be wrong as I’ve been many times before. The best The best we can do is accept the perfect world created since 13.8 billion…
The least optimistic word-user you’ll meet
I am, believe it or not, one of the least optimistic word-user you’ll meet. Like everybody else, I see what’s going on and I want to scream. But what I see most of all is the word-users in a war against nature that if we win, we lose. Screaming will help no more since…
Magic moments
What word-users do with their moments and how they use their eyes is what separates the many from the few. The few For the few that are masters of their moments and use their eyes to see words for what they are, the moments are magic.They know in the end everything…
The charming Zamboni machines
I have a soft spot for Zamboni machines. They’re big, slow, and seemingly awkward, yet there’s something majestic about them — like the elephants of the ice rink. After each intense period of play, the ice surface scuffed and uneven, the Zamboni glides onto the rink,…
Things said when words are gone
Words were invented 13,750 years ago. At the time, the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice. Split in two, part 1 Word-users vs wordless The invention of the word split the world in two. On the one side the ones that adopted the…
The food chain
Everything is energy, including the 9 million animal species living on Earth that operate by this simple rule: Eat or be eaten That’s where the food chain gets in. For us word-users — the only specie that uses words, 9 billion of us and counting — the food chain…
Ritual grooves are still needed today
I think among the ritual grooves still needed today are the driving force — what turns your wants into gold — and the power questions. Both of these are forms of meditation. The driving force I think your driving force ought to be repeated thrice daily (am, noon, and…
Finding happiness
Wait. Before rushing headlong into the trap set by word-users out to control you, I think the better strategy is a timeout. Take a break to ask yourself what happiness is instead: Is happiness a 352-page book? Is happiness a word? Is happiness yours to decide? That’s…