🦄 Your words aren’t magical

Book of TREE 2.50

Make sure to get all the way to the end today’s post so you can vote on the paper for the Invincible Summer print.

Words are powerful. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t write to you everyday.

But they aren’t magical.

One of the longest, slowest lessons of my life has been how to not be superstitious about my words.

I grew up believing that what you say you will get, provided you don’t doubt. So it was essential to say the right things. Get your words wrong and you get your whole life wrong. (There was one exception. If you said, ‘I will never…’ you were guaranteed to get the opposite of what you say.)

When that’s going on in your head, you can’t just talk – or just think, for that matter. You are cut off from the emotionally honest part of yourself.

So if you are having an awful, frustrating day, you can’t, for instance, say,’Fuck this day in the face with a bag of infected chicken teeth!’ because your magical words would put a curse on your life.

In reality, venting that frustration would probably relieve some internal pressure and give you enough thinking space to get back to doing gratitude.

Here’s a quick guide to thinking about your words:

If your general outlook on life is that today and every day after it needs to copulate violently with a large quantity of infected chicken teeth, even though they don’t exist, you’ll miss out on a lot of goodness.

But if you just need to express something, you’ll be fine.

Your words are powerful but not magical.

Print update: Invincible Summer is ready to go to the fine art print shop, so let’s choose the paper.

Left to right: Somerset Enhanced Velvet, Canson Infinity Aquarelle Rag, Hahnemühle Torchon

All three are gorgeous fine art papers, the kind that make you ask, How much per sheet? All are excellent choices for our print.

The Somerset is 100% cotton. It’s the smoothest of the three, though it has a definite texture, and offers the sharpest reproduction of detail. The finish almost chalky, in a nice way.

The Canson also 100% cotton. It has the typical dense texture of a watercolour paper. It’s the warmest of the three whites. It is made in moulds, the oldest and finest paper-making technique.

The Hahnemühle is made of cellulose (TREE fibre). It is the whitest of the three with exceptionally vivid colour reproduction. It has an unusual wide, highly-dimensional texture.

It’s time to vote!

Happiness
Jeff