Sticks and Stones

Posted on January 20, 2024 by mitchteemley

Rage

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.”

Unless…

“Choose your words carefully lest midair they turn into stones.”

~The Wishing Map

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Writer, Filmmaker, Humorist, Thinker-about-stuffer
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14 Responses to Sticks and Stones

  1. Manu says:
    January 20, 2024 at 8:05 pm

    Ooh good one, Mitch.

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  4. joyindestructible says:
    January 20, 2024 at 11:50 pm

    And with those stones wound someone (usually a child) with a life long wound. People’s bodies heal from so much physical abuse but the emotional wounds can last forever.

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  5. seeingliketheeagle says:
    January 21, 2024 at 3:25 am

    Great post Mitch. Made me think of one of those catapults that fires big boulders. Those will crush someone. I think we’ve all probably encountered some of those crushing words from people.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    January 21, 2024 at 5:47 am

    Hi Mitch, It’s been a while … I’ll always be thankful for you: you were the very frist person to comment on one of my very first posts on vernonmilesker.com. Wa are both SoCal boys. I’ve moved my domain off of WordPress [dot]com and onto a Visual Studio GitHub Instance. So, when you click on the URL https://vernonmileskerr.com that’s where you’ll be taken. I have to confess, my spiritual journey has evolved since you and I started conversing. I pray daily to God. (being NativeAmerican) I lean toward calling God, “The Great Spirit.” I try to keep my prayers free of reference to Bible-Scripture. Like our atheist friends, I’m just trying to “figure things out, as I, as a childhood-to-young-adult-atheist always did. I was already foored by the immensity and beauty of the Universe. One poetry prof. at S.F.State severly criticized by propentsity to always be contemplating “Infinity.” He said poems need to be “down to earth,” have macrovision rather than telescopic. It’s only in recent years that I’ve realized that his advice was “male-bovine-excrement”. LOL I’m also going to change the emphasis on vmk.com from arguing against “churchianity,” and “politics,” to one of a positive heralding of a “New Renaissance” where “chuchianity” no longer has the negative impact on human affairs that we have recently experienced. In the meantime God bless you. (I mean that sincerely.) And I pray that your output will reach the people who need to hear it.

    Thanks again. Many thanks again,
    Vern

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  7. Ab says:
    January 21, 2024 at 8:55 am

    So true! 🙏

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  8. Awakening Wonders says:
    January 21, 2024 at 4:30 pm

    Oh, this is so true!!!!!

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  9. Rosaliene Bacchus says:
    January 21, 2024 at 5:39 pm

    Sad to say, words do hurt 🙁

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  10. shoestringdiary says:
    January 23, 2024 at 8:08 am

    Great post Mitch. Whoever came up with that first quote wasn’t being honest.

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