Journal

The Power of a Word

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity.
Yehuda Berg

There’s a famous saying that a picture paints a thousand words. And it does. Art illuminates the world around us in a way that words would often struggle.

Yet at the same time, a single word can change the world in ways a picture never could, both positively and negatively.

Love. Hate. Birth. Death.

Four single words that can have a profound effect on anyone they relate to at a given time.

It’s Up To Us To Make The World Better

This morning, as I was getting the kids ready for school, my eight year old son Ewan couldn’t find his gloves (we think he left them in mom’s car, and she had left for work).

So, he dug into the hat and gloves pile and found his mom’s winter gloves. “I’ll wear these pink ones,” he declared.

“What if your friends make fun of you?” I asked him, remembering how his friends had ridiculed him earlier this year for wearing a raincoat that ‘wasn’t a boy’s colour’.

On Being a While Since the Last Update, and Beers That Go With Marketing!

So I realized last night, as I was looking at some updates on here, that I hadn’t posted any content for more than six weeks. That’s a lifetime! Or at least, it used to be…

It’s not that I’ve run out of things to say, or lost interest in blogging/podcasting. Far from it.

I’ve just been busy in all areas of my life – work, personal, some little creative stuff I’ve been tinkering with, and such as. And that’s pretty much kept me away from this blog.

Sure, I could have just reposted stuff I’ve done elsewhere, but that’d be unfair to you, as it’d feel I was just mailing something in, which is one thing I’d never do.