Reena’s Exploration Challenge #153 – Thoughts and Words

Thoughts and words …. by Michael

Michael's avatarMorpethroad

Questions

  1. How do my thoughts get processed into words?
  2. Or do my words spur thoughts?
  3. How do they interact?

Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit. (One of my mum’s favourite quotes).

Thoughts are often just flashes in my mind as they travel from one side of my brain to the other. They don’t linger long enough to form into words, but every so often, like with this prompt, those thoughts become words even though my mind is undecided as to which words it might select as appropriate.

Its what makes the process so deliciously attractive. The interaction of thought and word and the sometimes conflict they play out does, in the end, produce something you can be pleased with.

It doesn’t mean one wins over the other because so often we write our thoughts down, we believe we are hitting on a winner only to find…

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