No toe-wetting here.
This blog exists, if for no other reason, to amuse myself: to keep my verbage active, to salt my creativity to keep it from spoiling, to ensure I have ample strength to pun when I'm 86.
But if there is another reason, then it is to share: to invite you to enjoy the products of this mental exercise, to tear them apart so I can put them together, and hopefully to inspire similar production in those who read me - I think it's nice exercise.
In honor of a first blog post, a bit on the hearing of words:
One thing that would sincerely satisfy me in "making it big", almost more than the money (almost..), is the ability to be heard. Those that have the most pervasive voices are not such because they have the clearest voices, but because they are the most visible. The audience of the world is not passive to the voices of the world; they do not receive all auditory signals and digest the the most trumpetest ones. We are, in metaphor as in physiology, active listeners, listening to those we can see, processing those we can focus our attention on. This is also perhaps what I most enjoy about the broadening accessible grasp of social media. It is the shout to our metaphorical senses - if any person exudes a colorful enough whelp, they will be seen, heard, and perhaps even heeded.
tl/dr
ReplyDeleteJust because I'm an asshole, I do believe the last word in your blog should be "heeded", not "headed". Mostly because I don't think anyone actually wants to be headed, as I would assume being treated like a soccer ball may hurt.
ReplyDeleteNoted. Or, heeded, as it were.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you're right, too.. though I'd imagine it would just be less excessive or encompassing than being beheaded.
Welcome to the world of blogging Brian! I will add you to my blogroll!
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