In our 2nd session of the WordMagic WordShoppe, one of the participants introduced us to the Japanese word moai [moe-eye], which essentially means, ‘meeting for a common purpose.’ This is…
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Have you heard people speak of mental ‘mettle’? Or is this one of those important words that have lost their currency in the public mind? Mettle is synonymous with courage…
One of the participants in our WordMagic WordShoppe yesterday introduced us to the Japanese term, Moai[1] (pronounced ‘moe-eye’). I looked it up and learned that it means ‘meeting for a…
After watching my 2010 YouTube video, The Secret Spells of the English Language, people want to know ‘Who did this to us?’ It’s a really good question and is perhaps…
“Man’s deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And when there is an epidemic, the group mind takes over.”…
It’s more like a war on words to determine who gets to ‘own’ key words and catch phrases so as to purposefully distort the intent behind their previously agreed upon…
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”. Buckminster Fuller, 20th C American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist One…
What if –– suddenly –– the scales tipped and forever more you knew you were enough? There was nothing left to prove to anyone else –– so only inspiration moved you…
Few of us give conscious thought to the everyday metaphors that color our communications. Yet these prefabricated phrases are often loaded with undesirable inferences that retain their currency, and perhaps…
In the early 90s, I was hired to write a catalog for a speakers’ bureau. My job was to digest and distill the biographies and accomplishments of 60 extraordinary people…