Day 114 - I love...thesaurus.com

Thesaurus. it's like a dinosaur. a word dinosaur! like, Thesaurus Rex.

okay, perhaps not.

but I do love my Thesaurus. and thesaurus.com.

I grew up with my word-mama. a walking dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia. 

she gave me a love of words.

one year I asked for a Thesaurus for my birthday. I still have it. and I still refer to it frequently. there are just those time when I can't think of the word I want, but I can think of a thousand other words that are almost the word.

so I flip through my book until I find the word that is just on the tip of my tongue.

words are magic. words are emotion. words are beautiful.

Day sixty - I love...this quote

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

~Stephen King

I often say something very similar to this. the fact that words are sometimes just too damn small to really express feelings. 

why is that?

small words. big emotion.

seems a bit tragic, really. 

and p.s. it seems a bit ironic...I haven't really read a lot of Stephen King...but I often refer to SK quotes...because truly, the man is quite brilliant.  and I still need "On Writing" for my bookshelf.  must get. maybe birthday present to me.