When I was a child, we frequently visited the palatial Museum of Natural History in L.A.’s Exposition Park. And in my estimation, it was the Hall of Minerals that contained…
In our 2nd session of the WordMagic WordShoppe, one of the participants introduced us to the Japanese word moai , which essentially means, ‘meeting for a common purpose.’ This is…
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 (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…
With everything that’s going on right now, I’ve been thinking about a beautiful, heart-centered mentor/friend who’s older ½-brother was beaten in early childhood by his police officer bio-dad. He grew…
What if you couldn’t do it right but you couldn’t get it wrong? What if – at this point – everything works together for Good, no matter how messed up…
The Word That Defines the Moment On July 30, 2019, Degringolade was the word-of-the-day on dictionary.com, which quotes from a prophetic science fiction novel by British author H.G. Wells to…
Elemental Communication the In 2011, I hosted a WordMagic Garden Party at Olandar, the magical home of Leigh and Carla McCloskey in Zuma Beach, California. Because I have much of my WordMagic…
Fu: The Buddha Bat of Happiness My Life’s Dream began to flow in earnest about two or three years after I was born. The significant event marking its commencement occurred…
Pray or Prey / Prophet or Profit / Worship or Warship / Parish or Perish Is the English Language Talking Back to Us? I believe that it is – and…
Verbal Sonar: Words aMaze and Fasten8 us in part because we are almost never free of them. They enter through our eyes and ears, trip off our tongues, pour out our fingertips, rattle…
With World-Changing RePercussions Some Stunning Puns & Telling Words The footprint of the culture can be read throughout the language—and our deeper wisdom ‘unearthed’—by looking more deeply into words. Then, like fireworks…