Newsletter #8 25-Sep-2025

My weekly newsletter is about you, words, what you are, and how it all began 13,750 years ago when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.
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#8 September 25, 2024

Hello fellow word explosionists,
Those of us living in the northern hemisphere are now into the season of the falling leaves. Winter isn’t far away. In Switzerland, it has already begun, and September makes all things new. I’m no exception to all things new as I’m about to move into a new place across town, barely a couple of stone throws away, in the coming days. You won’t hear from me for a while. If you get word explosion withdrawal symptoms, you can always browse the past articles on my website.
A short recap to keep you and words in mind until my weekly word explosions are back again.

YOU

WHEN YOU CHANGE HOW YOU LOOK AT WORDS, YOU CHANGE.
You are either controlled (by words).
Or you are controlling (words).
There is no in-between.

WORDS

Word-users have made up rules for words. Near as I can tell, me first among them.
A WORD BY ANY OTHER WORD IS A WORD.
This rule applies to words identical to gravity’s. You can break it, but word and gravity won’t know about it.

Electric quotes

“There is one elementary truth, the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe