It Goes With Saying

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with words for most of my life (which must be quite obvious from the topics in this blog!). On the one hand, without words it would be very difficult to tell you about anything.  Like, something that happened to my friend Sarah yesterday at the park and why I was so upset.  ( Though I don't have a friend named Sarah, didn't go to the park, and was not the least upset. )   Or for that matter, without words I would be unable to tell you what I hoped to be doing five years from now and why.  ( Here you breathe a huge sigh of relief .) If you want to know ( and even if you don't ), ....

Election seasons always lead me to thinking again about the power of words (when don't I?).    Have we ever been so bombarded with them as we are today?  It used to be just books, magazines, and newspapers—and  maybe the occasional Saturday night newsreel.  Now, besides TV, we’ve got the 24/7 global bombardment from take-it-with-you-everywhere personal communication devices. It's the iKnow generation.   If the law of supply and demand applies to words, then surely words aren’t worth much anymore.  Who can trust them?