But, words can be useful, especially if they are “fitly” spoken, as in your blog. I’m working right now on a book about my home town. At first my greatest challenge was to talk about only the good and positive. Once I began to focus on the good, the book started to come together quite easily and I developed a much deeper appreciation for my family and the little town where I grew up. I wrote the book slowly, bit by bit, in a coffee shop where I go in the mornings before work. As I finish each chapter, I send them to my family and I think they are very much enjoying reading about themselves and their town in a more positive light.

Your words in this blog encourage me to keep going (persistence) and help me remember that the book I’m writing is a true gift for my family because it is a collection of “fitly” spoken words.

Thanks for your own persistence with your blog.

Linda Baran

Divisive thoughts create divisive words and divisive words create divisive actions. There is not a place in the human world today where divisive thoughts do not exist. (A good example would be the political arena — in the U.S. the lines have been drawn).

The world will always be divided as long as I see it and believe it to be. The insanity has to
stop with me. It is only from the truth of who I am that I can speak with clarity; from any other place the lines continue to be drawn.

Your poem is lovely Chris. Your words comes from that place of truth. Until we individually (and then collectively) come to the point of living them in our daily lives, they remain but beautiful words from an equally beautiful spirit.