Updated when available. When you think about it, the power of words is an awesome thing. Perhaps more powerful even than bombs, medicine, or technology.
Words cause wars.
Words can enlighten, encourage, wound, destroy, intimidate, heal, devastate, uplift, change lives. Careless words spoken thoughtlessly not long ago left me saddened, distressed, and engulfed in a little black cloud. As I struggled to understand the why of things, the phone rang, and a voice I did not recognize asked to speak to me. The caller, from another city, identified herself as a granddaughter of a friend of mine who died almost 10 years ago. Your words captured her so perfectly, it was like bringing her to life for us again, and we both laughed and cried.