Road Trip

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Good morning, that wonderful way.

How’s it hangin’?

Boogie slangin’?

Any which way it goes, yo,

On with our show. O/

Vernacular Spectacular, the words we choose define us by the arrangement of parts.

It’s not the size of your vocabulary that determines your success with language. The shape of your word choices do.

We can always learn new words. And should.

Our means to express ourselves grows when we do, so the richness of our experience of life grows too.

But you can win every game of Scrabble and still have a hum-drum life if your ability to arrange your words to best suit your experience is lacking.

A poet always uses the correct word for the content conveyed.

The most impressive word is always the one that leaves the best impression on the reader of the sentiment being shared.

Like lyrics, or lack of lyrics, the arrangement shapes the rhythm of our language to express our point.

A road trip in a car cranking Hip-Hop is a different experience than one blaring Beethoven.

The company you keep and your destination, how you want that company to feel once you reach where you’re going, should dictate your choice of beats, yo.

Comfort comes first.

A trustworthy narrator is a writer’s car you want to get in.

The trip is always enjoyable; the author is good company.

They picked out a few great sights to see along the way.

You want the writer to take the backroads; the trip is always enjoyable.

The journey matters at least as much as reaching the destination.

Because the journey, for you, is part of the experience of the destination.

It’s in your personal definition of the place reached.

This is why it’s always good to have good company to travel with: Your understanding of life is changed when you change your experience of it.

Hopefully these morning excursions on +he Ghos+ Train Express add something positive to the experience of your day.

Wonder, if you keep reading, is why you keep reading: I sing wonder.

In a world so set on numbers and binary lights to dictate days, I’m a sunrise reminder of the sunrise.

A reminder that you don’t know a single thing about life other than how to see more sunrises, and if you’re brave enough to ask yourself what music means to you.

Take care, listen to yourself and some music, wonder how they’re the same thing, get in tune, and make a wonderful day.