stran’gle hold’, 1. Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent’s breath is choked off. 2. any force or influence which restricts the free actions or development of a person or group: the strangle hold of superstition. Random House
Just love this series! When my eyes opened to this word/term a flood of thoughts entered my mind (had to wipe down the monitor), a physical reaction; strangely though, none of it related to violence. Strangle hold is a wrestling term first and foremost, secondly, it is illegal in the sport (and elsewhere).
My high school had a daunting wrestling team (big, corn-fed champions) and for a time recruited me. Being too brutal for my weight class, they moved me up one. Being not well liked, the bigger boys were decidedly trying to hurt me, and so it was time to depart the sport.
Which once again shows us that the only meaning words have is given by us, and that they do have definitions which are objective by nature; and when they are used for reasons other than good, well, that’s anything but good.
Strange and Unusual Places:
is about the strangle hold of superstition, in the kindest and gentlest of ways.
Unacquainted and Peculiar Updates
Let’s discuss Substack for a moment. writer, n. 1. a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., esp. as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist. Random House
The definition might suggest one getting paid for their efforts, or maybe not. When asking a friend for suggestions on bringing down my cost per word, his answer was “write more words”.
My experience here so far is that writers make terrible readers (too busy writing) and readers make terrible writers (too bashful?), or as one writer claims, illiteracy is the result of spending too much time online.
It seems fair to say there are people who are good at both. It also seems fair to say that digital media can foreshorten attention span.
This writer prefers to read from books, strictly nonfiction. My attention span for reading online is deplorable unless technical in nature (much prefer being here).
Trying my best to reach out to like-minded readers and writers (much prefer being here) and meeting with limited results.
This all seems quite normal, in a way, considering these new methods of doing things.
The conclusion is that my own writing has become my favorite reading.
We have some five-star readers here and some writer/readers as well. Keeping these posts short benefits both me and the reader.
In my opinion, something special is happening here (maybe it’s just me); readership is high, and the aim is to keep it high, the subscription rate doesn’t matter as much as the readers.
This is about you, casting your spell here in these words. As long as you’re here, then all of this is real.
none of this is real… A Course in Miracles
