When you read the words someone writes, think for a minute it's like a place you're visiting. Ideas or an understanding we have and choose to share become a place we welcome others to visit. Words and sentences can be like artwork or fine jewelry on display, or vintage car or rare stamp collections. Your interests and likes attract you and a curious grasp for understanding has you step inside. We always make a little time for the things that interest us. The words you have just read would be the front door, welcome.
A poem can be a cafe, or even a lakeside sunset. A short story can be a museum or a hall of fame. Some stories are a ride in the country with the top down. and others like a night on the town. And a book can be a city, or an entire world. This place you are at right now is like a blueprint of a workshop. This workshop is where my ideas take shape, all of them. Information and knowledge are stored in memory, and parts and pieces are brought together with inspiration from other places we visit, to shape our ideas into words and thoughts. These thoughts inspire others, and the cycle perpetuates. With the forming of an idea, the structure or scenery takes shape, and the more you write, the more detailed the surroundings will be. Written and spoken words are from the same idea workshop, where groups of words are formed to make sense. When we argue, we use our vocabulary like a weapon, shaping words into swords, bullets, and bombs. When we teach, we choose words that soften the edges to encourage learning, or funnel information into understanding. When we truly love, we speak from the heart without the fear of the mind.
When we have an idea, we find the need to build a place for understanding to be shared. Our memories are like a warehouse, and we call on knowledge and truth from lessons learned to move ideas in a forward progression. Inspiration is like a spark, and stored information in memory fuels the fire of invention. Pulling more and more from storage, adding shaping and building. We can share ideas, but some have a better ability to bring ideas into reality than others. It's how we shape the idea, and what its made of that determine it's value. If someone says to you 'good idea', it's a indication they like the way you think.
I share this idea, this place, this overview of the blueprint of my workshop because I'm inspired by your ideas, and where they came from. Although we are strangers, we are friends. Although we are different, we are the same. Although we are not family, we are brothers and sisters. We are all a product of love, and that love shows itself in the passion we have for our ideas, and the respect for the ideas of others.
All of these words, are just an idea...
A work in progress
For all my friends
Copyright 2013
Archie Papa...
