I listened to a great short story by Neil Gaimen. He is one of my favorite authors. In it a character told about people who spend their words as if they were gold coins. It really spoke to me but I scatter my words around as if they were pieces of dung.
I keep thinking about it, but don't know if I could pull it off. He also mentioned fouling the air with curses and threats. Sounds more like me. I will work on that.
I am also reading The Graveyard Story by him.
Here is a link to the short story. Now you will really know how strange I am.
http://www.fiftytwostories.com/?p=1338
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Well, without reading the story, I am reminded of a time when Sarah was about 5 or 6 and we were at the mall. I guess I had smiled and said hello to a few people as we walked along and she said something on the order of I shouldn't use all my hello words because when I'm an old lady I won't have any left! Well, I'm an old lady and I still have plenty of hellos hanging around. I'm sure your story has a deeper message and I'll look into it.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of books. I just read a couple of books by Cathy Lamb, Julia's Chocolates and The last Time I was me. Overall, I was disappointed in parts of them but there were some really good parts and parts that we sister would find interesting, funny and thought provoking. It seems like she started both books with all her best material but she struggled to finish as strongly. As I said, they were still pretty good. (that wasn't a very strong recommendation, I know)
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Interesting.....certainly something for me to think about. I think I would like to hear the whole story to determine how I use my words. Probably like the money our government is printing that is no good. Please don't tell me that is so even if it is.
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