The Content of Our Words

Well, bloody.

I'm not sure what God is trying to teach me, but I'm not quite a fan of it.

And then I read this: "For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it" (Hebrews 12:11).

I hope there's not much more to be gained from my current predicament; I am quite ready to move on.

In other news, some people are the dearest people you could ever imagine a person could be. I lady whom I befriended in my painting class has spent most of her career doing marketing work. She gave me two hours of her time, dropping a wild wealth of knowledge on me! I hope that, someday, I can pay her back. For now, I have my work cut out for me.

I don't know what "work cut out for me" actually means. I know what it implies, but I would prefer to know its etymology. I have this philosophy that, if you don't know a word's/phrase's etymology, you can't use it.

It's funny how little we think about our words. A favorite quote of mine comes from Winston Churchill: "He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."

For the life of me, I can't remember the book I read. In it, a mathematician was analyzing a political speech. Using symbolic logic (if-then statements and such), he showed that a certain man's speech—reduced only to it's logical content—was nothing. Imagine if there were software that could reduce words to raw logical content! The media would be empty. Facebook walls would be bare. So many books would be blank.

If it went one step further and "translated" our conversations into actionable, logical content only, imagine the quiet that would blanket our world. It would be beautiful.

Michael needs an update. Honestly, Meadowvale needs an update. Jane keeps telling me I should set out to publish Werbel's story. Ree recommended I start recording myself reading Michael. I think Michael will be an easier start. Unfortunately, my computer is a bit wonky, and I may have to send it back for repairs. My phone might do the trick, but it seems so small. A lot of work is done on phones; it might just work.

In any case, I'm off to write and then hopefully write. You should start writing too!