Healing WordArt

A Re- Leaf The secret of human happiness is not in self seeking but in self forgetting" - Theodor Reik  A Walk in the Suburbs. A grey overcast sky with the promise of rain wafting on the gentle breeze. A wide, even footpath winding its way merrily through the colourful suburban landscape leads me to the local nature reserve.  With spring only a week away in Australia, the birds are filling the airways with courtship songs and the bright flower buds are bursting at the seams with anticipation. My footsteps slow as I briefly enter 'the zone' where I zone out. Some of the worlds greatest thinkers refer to it as the "flow state".    I think of it as a state where I feel completely at one with whatever I am doing.  I am no longer self-absorbed and inward looking but absorbed into my surrounds and outward looking. I am completely focused on the NOW and the sensory splendour of the moment. Spending time in nature is like having a holiday from myself....

Language is the way we human communicate with each other and consists of the use of words in a structured way, and often unique to a particular country or community.   The Oxford English dictionary has about 220,000 words. In the Oxford 'Shorter' Dictionary there are 163,000 different words, The Oxford Reference dictionary has 115,000 different words (200,000 meanings) and The Oxford English mini-dictionary has 40,000 different words (50,000 meanings). So there are thousands of different words, some nouns, some verbs and some adverbs and adjectives.   So what does this all have to do with a grieving parent?   Well you might ask! I recently came across an article where a bereaved parent who wished there was a term like orphan, widow or widower to describe her status. She further stated that while the death of a child is too awful to contemplate it happens every day to countless parents who are get no comfort from the denial of their loss. With suicide at...