A Sentence Like a Word

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

Top of it! O/ The morning, that is.

A formal hello from your informal, very ironically, personable Ghos+.

Tux or evening gown, pajamas or hoodie, oh goodie another sunrise.

Here we go.

On with our show...

Pastel powder slow fade lightshow sky this morning.

Spring passes the sunlight to Summer. Another hot day on the way.

Traffic whooshes and wahoos its way to work on the Interstate.

Hope your commute, wherever you're going, is a good one.

Maybe you picked a new playlist, or went with the regular reliable one, or live radio surprises with just the right songs to grace the speakers in your car.

A robin atop the chain link fence surveys the yard, swoops! a smile face pattern to the taller fence across the grass.

One of these days you'll get it right.

That dream you've been meaning to do will start to show steps to accomplish it.

Perhaps that's today.

It does help to visualize its success first.

We should always begin with the end in mind.

If there's no destination to enter into the GPS, directions don't matter.

Paths are places for arbitrary footsteps if you're going nowhere.

Slow topic destination this morning; sometimes the days just work. There's nothing to stand out, not much to say.

I used a semicolon in the above paragraph; I thought of a writers reluctance.

In terms of literature, the semicolon is a private moment shared, an inside joke or confidence.

You and I know the two concepts make a distinction. There's a definite sub-textual importance shared in the ideas.

A semicolon treats a sentence like a word.

There's a relationship between the two that makes a new definition.

It's a great literary tool, and a shame so many writers shun it.

There's an earned intimacy with your reader necessary to make it work.

The two images each sentence brings to the work go together in an important and distinct way to serve the work.

The contrast is the most important message, not each singular clause, the relationship between the two.

What went before coincides with what follows.

A semicolon is a second sentence that learned from the first.

It's the work learning from the past to better define itself.

"Oh, the memory of that caused you to do that? Oh, that thought or experience led to this one? Oh, I get you. I see why you made those connections."
- Well Earned and Trusting Reader

The expression of the 'why of the connections' is what a semicolon expresses.

It's a single idea; it's one clause.

Take care, watch your grammar, punctuate conservatively with flair and make wonderful (with or without an Oxford comma) your wonderful day.