Health
We Cannot Be Distanced from
Words
While physical ‘distance’ is the order of the day, we cannot be distanced from words. So, let me shift for once from the benefits of exercising the body by moving to talk about the magnificent menagerie of our minds.
Words
The very origin of structured communication. Books, poems, lyrics, articles, reviews, studies… information; to be digested for the purposes of pleasure, entertainment, escape, or used to be informed, or to be educated. One thing I have always loved to do is write. It is a means to convey one’s ideas, opinions and imagination. A way to focus energy and to constructively channel whatever thought or feeling is being experienced on any given day. In any given moment. A way to capture mood and to be able to recall it on a page thereafter. A tool, an instrument, a means to document the present, speak of the past and paint perceptions of the future, whether in stark,
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Deepings
statistical scientific fact, or in the fantasy, flair and festival of creative, colourful storytelling. A means to move people to emotion. Words it seems to me have more importance now than ever before. Initially, the written word, which of course holds the powerful potential to become the spoken word. Spoken as a means of communicating to groups of people for information, spoken in the form of a story we read to our children or even sung as your favourite song. Right now, I spend my time digesting the written word in two primary ways. Firstly, by reading the news from a number of different, corroborated, reliable sources as a means to understanding how I navigate myself, my family our business and our customers safely through the pandemic, and secondly by reading books
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