Words

[wood_artist]

All of life is about words. Words that hurt, words that heal, and words that are carelessly thrown away, leaving lasting scars and lingering forever. The problem is that words have meaning, and I'm not just talking about what Webster says.

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[gretchen_marie]

I have lots of reactions to all of this. Aren't you lucky? *grin

[wood_artist]

Years ago I had he privilege of hearing a speaker with the topic of "More alike than different." It was a strange setting for the presentation...a League of Oregon Cities convention. He had some condition, I'm sorry to say I don't recall the specifics, that caused him to speak slowly and he sometimes slurred his words.

When he began it was a little difficult to understand him, but as he talked it became much easier. He spoke about the trials of being "different" or the perception that he was "retarded." By the end of his presentation almost the entire audience was in tears, simply because in very simple terms he had described how everyone made his life more difficult without ever intending to do so. As he observed, in many ways, his greatest obstacle was perception. He was right.