I enjoyed the bliss of instant affinity with a group of young writers I met in the park today. We were all so excited, talking over each other, apologizing for it… it felt really good and we all knew that ‘we were with our people’.

Later, I was thinking about writing to them, as we exchanged emails… and I thought about saying ‘words can’t express the joy I felt just being together and sharing our minds and ideas’. It was then that it hit me:

Words actually do not express anything. They »suggest. This is why we ‘cannot express in words’ the depths of our emotions or experience. We can suggest them with words, but the actual communication requires many things that are not in the words… one of which is the deep desire to imagine and understand on the part of the recipients.