Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, Stay In Touch.

Pain and suffering are related although not necessarily a consequence of one another. Some would express the importance of knowing the difference, precisely to avoid indulging in suffering. But that is not today’s topic. Today is more about the magic in our everyday words. The language includes phrases we repeat to help ward off pain causing situations. Perhaps charged with mag ...