Words, said Kipling, are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Words can make us feel small, and weak, and lost. Words can lift us up, make us feel hopeful, optimistic, inspired.
Words can be used to disguise what is going on. And yet we can also find the words to tell the most powerful truths of all: our own.
Words, labels, language can make us feel that the world is fixed, absolute, unyielding. But by playing with words and language we can start to soften those edges, create twirls and swoops and circles, whisper a sense of unknown possibility……can’t we?