FiftyFive ~ # 3

Not everyone has a fairy grotto at the bottom of their garden - but I do. It is full of stories and songs and poems and all kinds of writing just waiting to be unleashed. Though you have to be careful because it is guarded by the wordsmith - known in New York's TomTom Club as Wordy Rappinghood which takes us into Little Red territory and what are words worth? "words of nuance/ words of skill/ words of romance are a thrill..." And yet the wordsmith does seem to have his problems. It would only take a few words to agree on a remedy for climate change, stop a war and bring us peace on earth - as the song says but for some reason saying them and meaning them appears to be more difficult than most world leaders can manage which is a bit of a shame. As a good friend once reported to me, a scientist being interviewed about the leader of the Australian opposition (in climate change denial) said, in dismissive terms, 'Look, it's easy to be a condom on the prick of progress...' - what are words worth? I love that phrase...