Wield Beautiful Words

[Beautiful Future - XII]

I went to the hospital the other day. I ran into 27 communicators.

Mind you, that is only counting the actual people that communicated with me. Not the woman that designed the graphics on the sign that warned about COVID. Not the team that decided to make the bathroom sign androgynous or the committee that wrote the pamphlet about obesity. Not the architect and designer that designed the lobby and the rooms with a message in mind.

I talked to the guard.
The covid screener.
The receptionist.
The guy sitting next to me in the waiting room.
The intake nurse.
The other nurse.
The nurse on the computer.
The doctor.
The doctor's scribe.

You get the idea.

We are all communicators, no matter our line of work or stage of life. And we don’t all need to major in English or Creative Writing to be excellent communicators. But we do need practice. And feedback.

The future will be beautiful, but it will require taking seriously the challenge of language to communicate the change we dream about. Don’t settle for gibberish. Or too much slang. Or tweets.

Wield words that are meaningful. Purposeful. Powerful. Beautiful.