The wonder of words

There are entire books that are dedicated to the wonder of the written word.  Authors exalt them.  Readers savour them.  Children marvel at them.  Students learn them.  They are words!  Words that are the cornerstone of communication.  While our bodies apparently have a lanuage of their own, they can not express or describe as well words. 

The word itself... :WORD: seems unworthy of describing its own function.  But then, words are so beautiful that each and every one of them is worthy.  Some words come together in a way that is soporific to the reader.  That is the sad truth about the most powerful weapon known.  It must be controlled, it must be wielded by a speaker or writer or even a reader and given life.  It must be given meaning.  The author breathes life into the printers' ink that forms the marks on the paper. 

Authors often pay homage to their greatest tool.  They write of the joy that words bring them. 

A Book... a community of words that work together to tell a story! 

Books bring such pleasure as they invite us into their very own world.  Authors praise their fellow authors, their contemporaries, their favourites and their successors.  They are amazed by the composition of foreign lands and fictional characters.  Then they sit down and do it themselves. 

Then readers take their favourite parts, the delicious words, and quote them.  They enter them on websites and write them on posters and hang them on their mirrors.  We all partake of this gourmet meal of paper and ink.  We find our favourite course and order it again and again.  We relish it over and over.  We roll the words around on our tongue until they melt like a chocolate sauce.  We experience the joy and sorrow of the characters.  We travel the lands of literature.  We hate the villians and cheer for the heroes.  We hope and we grieve and we dream and we love and we hate and relax while we read.  The joy that reading can bring is indescribible. 

I have rambled enough I suppose.  But it is vitally important that I tell you.  I must share my thoughts on this one subject.  Words, especially written words are windows used by our minds to see.  The written word allows us to the see the world through the eyes of others.

When words are wielded by the talented, they are more powerful that we can ever really know. 

Okay... I'm done. 

She left me!

Hagird here!  So M has had a bit of a week!  Her dad was in hospital and she had to stay with her mum.  So poor M!  But personally I think you all need to spare a thought for poor furry me! 

M left me.  She just packed up and went.  Not a cuddle or a note.  I was right there, I watched her pack, she could have taken a second to say, "By the way Hagrid, my love, Dad is in hospital and I have to go for a few days."  But no, she just left.  Then, I have to spend nearly a week with the BFF.  I love the BFF, but she has these weird rules about personal space bubbles and teddy bears picnics. 

Anyway, M is back.  She is trying to compensate me by giving me lots of cuddles and smiles and telling me stuff.  She is even typing this blog for me, because we all know that my paws don't agree with the silly keyboards you humans seems to love so much! 

I'm so glad she is back! :)

The Calendar has been talking to me again!

The Calendar says:

"If swimming is good for your figure, how do you explain whales?"

"Shin: bone of the human body most useful for finding hard obstacles in the dark."

"If we weren't supposed to start over, God would not have granted us Monday."

Update

Dad is out of Hospital!  :D

The BFF is more awesome than ever!  I have asked her to promise not to ever make me move out!!!

I missed church today!  :(

But, the BFF and I went to see the final Harry Potter Movie.  I need a bit of a debrief after this.  You see, they changed the ending!  They changed things that were not supposed to be changed!  I don't like change! (grrr)

:@

My back hurts! :( ouch!

I seem to have lapsed back into the depths of my "exclamation mark" addiction! 

I have been remiss!

Did you know that remiss is a new word for busy?!
I have been very busy for the last 17 days.  I have also been unwell.  Not only that, I have returned to school which is busier than ever.  I bought a new bed.  My sister has become a Tupperware lady.  The BFF has contracted a more painful neck condition than mine (she always better than me at everything).  Then, on Monday night, if the world wasn't already in turmoil, Dad was rushed to hospital then to surgery with internal bleeding.  This resulted in a visit to the ICU and a short stint on a respirator.  Good News... NOT!

Then I am told that Dad's Dad has also been shipped off to hospital with an urinary tract infection and now has pnuemonia.  They are in two different hospitals approximately two hours apart and I missed quite a bit of work this week.  Quite frankly I would rather be sitting at my father's bedside than dealing with ratty 13 year olds who think that my class is boring.  So I went to be with Dad.  I am also staying at Mum's place this week because she doesn't know how to live on her own.  My brand new bed is going to get a complex if I don't go home soon! 

Anyway, that's about it.  I have more to say... always will... but for now.... that's that!

PS. spare a thought for Hagrid and the kids... they are at home alone with the BFF and I have to tell myself that they miss me.  I wonder if Hagrid can massage with those great big paws of his?!