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Dear Folks,
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can heal us."
—Sobya Tunsleu
A change from what we heard as a child isn't it?
"We use 'softeners' in our language,' Tony Robbins explained at a seminar. We use euphemisms. For example, we write "the F-word" because we don't want to say it or write it.
Presently, in essays, commentaries, and media talks, we have used the word 'Pedophile' so much that it has lost its power. If we described what a pedophile does to young girls, we would be shocked and perhaps up in arms.
No one dares write that, for they would be censored, or labeled as containing adult language, or they would fear reprisal in many ways.
I have noticed a curious phenomenon.
When I was into my political rantings, I got more readers.
Anger has power.
What about healing words?
What are they?
For while I felt that talking happy talk was frivolous when so much unhappiness and control existed in the world. I thought it meant I didn't care what was happening to us as a Nation. I feared I would be ignoring the situation.
However, I do care.
*This slogan came out of the '60s:
"What if We Had a War and Nobody Came?"
Could that principal be applied to the hype that makes us afraid, that makes us worry, that keeps us off kilter? You know it is easier to make fearful people do your bidding than happy ones.
We seem more complacent now. Have we lost our spirit? Do we feel we have no power? Do we feel railroaded and thus shut down?
"Without vision the people perish," so said somebody long ago. (Proverbs 29:18) It's hard to have fun with the heavy blanket of fear is draped over us like a shroud.
Isn’t that their intent?
And we are falling for it.
What if all the attention-grabbing sites weren't visited? (Well, that would eliminate me. And I know that businesses must market themselves, or nobody knows they exist. It's tricky.) But what if we are selective? What if we seek out simpatico individuals who uplift us? What if we find people who encourage us to be better versions of ourselves?
What if we began thinking our own thoughts, instead of those of influencers? Perhaps we could figure out something for ourselves. Maybe we would connect to a higher power. Possibly, we could lay aside some of our less attractive tendencies.
It is human nature to enjoy "Talking Trouble."
It takes a stalwart soul to stay out of that trap.
We are stalwart souls!
We are the ones to make a better day.
So, if words can shock us, perhaps Sobya Tunsleu is correct when she says that words can heal us.
Let's go that’a way.
Love,
Jo
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