Eloquence

Words and language

Sentences and paragraphs

Thoughts and attitudes

Action and transformation

Communication binds a culture together and frees individuals from isolation.

Words lift heavy hearts, condemn the proud and guilty, motivate the apathetic, slow the impulsive.

The mastery of language, its style and structure, inspired the adage “the pen is mightier than the sword.”

We treasure, revere, the words that move us.

Ideas flutter helplessly in the mind without the enfolding, invigorating medium of clear speech.

Few are the literary lodestars born blademasters of wordplay.

Full immersion into the depths of literature intubates the mind with the pure oxygen of eloquence.

Inhale deeply, O thou short of breath!

Exhale the overflow of your spirit!

Let apathy never deprive our children full passage of their potential to move hearts through command of their native tongue.

Get ‘em to read!

Teach ‘em to write!

SDG

A Better Word for Tragedy

When we hear of a natural disaster with hundreds or thousands dead, or a suicide, or other cause of ‘unnatural' death, destruction, or mayhem, we label it a tragedy. But what do we call it when it strikes closer to home, directly affecting us or someone we know personally and are watching go through the hell of unexpected grief, dealing with the aftermath, and trying to regain one’s bearings?

Honestly, I can’t think of any word to call it then. It is too raw and real to even put it to words.

We read about Job and all of the evils that befell him and call it a tragedy. But it wasn’t a tragedy to him. It was far, far worse.

Words for his situation were so insufficient, that when his friends joined him, they said nothing…for seven days. In fact, the first words at the end of that week were his intonations of a curse upon his own birth.

There are times in life that are beyond the reach of any words, and we do well to let silence have its eloquence.

SDG