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Open Your Eyes
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Communication — A Better Life through Word Play
Posted by: | CommentsI believe in words. I believe in the power they hold. I believe in the story a single word creates.
Bouquet. Tendril. Secret. An encounter with my junk drawer unearthed a buried book of Magnetic Poetry – that simple but ingenious invention—affirmed my faith in words.
My Magnetic Poetry book—a chunky spiral bound tome—is filled with refrigerator cryptograms and provides the perfect opportunity to tell a story. Magnetic words can be used anyone—anyone big enough to reach the icebox and with enough digital dexterity to separate the tiny words from their magnetic home base.
Precocious toddlers, stooped elders and funny kids can participate. Lovers, newly-weds and the long married have equal access. Universal in its appeal, you can love it or hate it and still partake in it.
It’s Scrabble without the stress, a crossword without the clues or hangman without the noose. The object is to embrace all of poetry’s shapes—odes and lunes and tanka and tercet. Forced to create from limited resources compels us to pare down to essentials. It requires the sentence creator to wholeheartedly do their job.
In this game the words take center stage. I have my favorites among the magnetic options.
Summer and song and secret.
Liquid and love and leave.
I love the creativity of put-together words like out-let and song-bird.
I love vivid words like summer and plums.
I love lexis that buzz and jump and make you look twice while pretending not to.
I love Haiku and tiny tales that jump off the board and send tidal waves of Oh’s to passersby.
liquid songs pronounce
morning shower so lovely
summers secret sound
Or
teach from here you said
bruised tongue staggers over his page
dark red book blossoms
Pure expression and creative endeavor—pick up a few words today—tell a miniature story.
Leave your poem below!
(original post Aug ’09)
Success to Significance – Celebrate What’s Right with the World – Dewitt Jones
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Inspiration, Motivation, Validation – Smile
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Self Growth / Personal Development – Get Started Now!
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Live Your Life Out Loud: 30 Ways to Get Started
Today’s article by Sonya Derian, owner/founder of Om Freely
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will tell you, I came to Live Out LOUD.” ~Émile Zola
1. Live your life on purpose. Not on “DEFAULT “. Be Proactive. Make conscious and deliberate choices. When you don’t choose, circumstances choose for you and you are never leading: you are following or catching up, or worse, living in “default” mode. Instead, make a decision to be the leader in your own life and take front and center. Lead.
2. Utilize your full potential. Give what you’re doing your best and fullest attention. Be here now. Even if you’re not where you want to be, giving it half your effort doesn’t move you forward. Master what you have at hand, for the sake of mastering it, and something will shift. Give it what you’ve got.
3. Overcome your fear. Get out of your comfort zone. Find out you have a pulse. Let something give you butterflies in your stomach. This is how you know you’re alive – how you grow into something new. Every fear overcome is a freedom gained. The less afraid you are,the more room you have to play. Consider that you live in a huge mansion with 35 rooms but you only live in 3 of the rooms because the rest of the house is dark. Go in and open all the lights. Unveil the darkness and you have a bigger house to play in. Don’t know how to overcome fear? Do the thing you’re afraid of. Cross them off the list. Make it a game. Pretty soon, you will be invincible. Living a life out loud, is living a life of freedom. Living a life of freedom is good.
