A way with words

Words have always been important to me.

I love to read and write. Learning to write in peculiar languages that only computers—and a select few humans—understand, has changed how I think and gifted me a successful career.

As that career shifted, my love of writing returned to the fore and I saw the thread of language, running from early life to the present day, asking to be much more of who I am.

A lot of what I write about today concerns the magic and misuse of words:

• The way we talk to ourselves (knowingly and unknowingly) & how our words shape our perception
• The ways we reveal ourselves to others with words
• How the words of others can wake us up to something in ourselves
• How we can get utterly lost in words (as rumination and over-thinking)
• Writing words as a therapeutic practice of expressing ourselves (whether in speech, journalling or writing)
• Words as a means of making the invisible, visible
• Words as a way of putting things in place without ever moving them
• How to understand the relationship between words and the silence they emerge from
• How words awaken us to beauty through poetry
• How words remind us of our full stature through spiritual teachings
• How words help us to reclaim the forgotten rooms of our psyches
• Not to mention how our words are inseparable from our self-awareness and how they allowed us to “time-bind”, creating a culture that is vastly beyond anything in the natural world.

Words are not only creative but protective: an intimacy with language helps us shield ourselves against slogans, propaganda & advertising. Words only become more important in the AI-dominant age, where everyone wants your attention, where political ideology is rife and debate is a rare thing.

Where anyone can set themselves apart by writing well and sharing it with others.