posted November 24, 2008 09:27 PM            

I find it interesting. I can visualize myself as something else than my human form. For instance, a blossoming tree with its roots rapidly expanding.

posted November 24, 2008 09:58 PM            

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a blossoming tree with its roots rapidly expanding

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The fruit may not fall far from the tree,
but the roots spread into eternity.

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Incidentally:

Did you know Shakespeare coined an entire book of words? Who do you suppose has influenced the development of language more than poets? Etymology is fascinating. I was made aware of its importance from reading Proust. The orgins of words are often very mysterious and buried in the past. Words change their spellings, pronunciations, and meanings, just as everything else changes. And these changes in meaning, begining subtly and ending more dramatically, are often extremely telling about the psychology of various cultures, historical movements, epochs, and of mankind in general. Some languages are so romantic and suggestive. Some are more deliberate and precise. But they all change and weave together and influence one another. I think the case may even be made that nothing has so much influenced the course of human history, than the meanings, conscious or unconscious, ostensible or inferred, of the words used to promote various ideologies.