Words are essential to the human experience. The written word is the culmination of thought and expressed in a recorded form. It may be deleted or destroyed but can still be transmitted by voice and memorialized. Before written language, stories, history, knowledge and wisdom were all passed down through generations orally in verses from the Torah to that of Homer’s epic. The very act of reading words stimulates the mind to think. To imagine. The reader controls the imagination. The writer is only the vehicle. We all can see our physical reflection in a mirror. I learned long ago, however, that writing is the mirror to the mind. 

I share here my words. Take them. Wrestle with them. Be delighted by them. Reject them. Embrace them. 

When music videos first began to be broadcast on MTV, it became addicting. Heck, I was like so many other kids who came home from school and turned on the TV to watch them. I can never forget that after a while, something inexplicable happened whenever I heard songs on the radio or through records or cassettes that I had seen the same music videos of. Thomas Dolby summed it up so clearly for me and I always remember what he said. Not verbatim but he said that musicians who make music videos were robbing our imaginations. What an epiphany! He was right. When I heard the songs away from the videos, my mind generated the same images as the music video. I was being robbed. The same can be said of films. Especially, movies that are adapted from novels. Readers of a particular book will often say how much more they prefer the book to the movie. The same principle applies. The reader provides the imagination. Providing the visual distorts that.

I can guide you the reader but ultimately, you provide the images. This is true freedom. Freedom of thought.