Puddle Splashin': Love of Words

I love to write. I find words so beautiful. When I pick up a pen to write or when my hands are clicking away on the keyboard, I feel like a painter with a paintbrush in hand sweeping my hand across the canvas.

This week I decided to get creative with words. It's a simple creative activity that you might want enjoy if you have time. I gathered a few magazines and started to cut and paste words that stood out to me. I tried not to think too much about it. I let it be more of an intuitive thing. Sometimes I picked words that I thought described me. I picked words I hope to be. I picked words that give me a warm comfortable feeling. I picked words that challenge me. I picked words I wish I knew more about. I scanned through texts, letting my eyes flow over the pages searching for treasure- words that triggered something inside me. It's truly an amazing thing that a simple word can trigger such emotions and memories within us.

I used a variety of magazines: a program for the Hollywoodbowl, a fashion magazine, and an Ikea magazine. It was fun to see what kind of words I found in each. The program had very artistic phrases such as "emanating elegance and class" or "climbing out in triumph." The fashion magazine had lots of words like "affordable", "sexy", "chic". The Ikea catalog has words like "pillows" and "comfortable." I have to say I enjoyed the Hollywood bowl program the best. I picked up words like resonates, vibrant, sacred, blossoms, distinctive, and dynamic that I hope to add to my simple writing vocabulary.

I've finished my page of words and I've started to see the interesting combination of words I got from randomly pasting them around the page.