Wednesday 15 June 2011

Self Portrait 15


Sometimes i can't find the words......

Sometimes i have nothing to say......

As a child, i sometimes wondered what it would be like if, at birth, each one of us was given our compliment of words for a life time, that when they were said there would be no more.....

Maybe today is tha....

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

HOPE NOT! your audience cant be let down,

Anne Hodgson said...

Do you know "The Phantom Tollbooth"? Milo walks through the tollbooth into a world where you have to eat your words before you can say them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth

Are you eating properly?

popps said...

Am i eating properly!!?
Define properly.
No, define eating!
I have heard of the p.T. but neither read watched or listened to it, i will do now thankyou.
But i was once in New York City and it was so cold the words froze as you spoke them. People had to warm them up with candles before they could hear.

Anne Hodgson said...

...as opposed to those very hot days when thoughts have trouble congealing into words, and you just leave them as you find yourself drifting off to dreamland.

...or those gusty days where you can't hear what the other person is saying because the words are blowing in the other direction.

... not to forget still days when there isn't enough of a breeze to waft their words to you.

popps said...

It's amazing we hear anything at all!
thank goodness we have singers!

Vicki said...

Oh what a wonderful post - and what lovely comments too. Trite I know, but sorry - no other words to describe it.

popps said...

Thankyou professor!:-)

Vicki Hollett said...

Oh sorry, are you talking to me? I think you must be mistaken.