Hello friend, how are you? My dearest listeners, today I welcome you to this space of musing interruptus to go off on a veritable rant (communicate in an impassioned manner). I appreciate your listening and sharing your thoughts with me. Today, it mutates, evolves, and is alive… it is language.

Language allows us to name ideas, people, and things. Objects come into existence through recognition (identification) when we name them. We create and destroy realities and perception with words. Needless to say (it is obvious), words matter. For a writer, words are everything. For a child, it is the difference between getting attention and getting exactly what he or she wants. Setting aside the matter of actually knowing what you want… knowing how to ask for it, is the most important thing. It’s not just a matter of assertiveness, but word selecti ...