“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…

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...

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…

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…

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...

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...

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…

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…

Thoughts for a Divinely Loving Valentine’s Day[1] When I was 20, I read these beautiful words in The Phenomenon of Man by the French paleontologist and Jesuit priest, Teilhard de…

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...

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...

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies…