DAY 27, MARCH 27, 2024, WORDPLAY
Good Morning, Everyone,
The word “Soon” has always intrigued me. Like most words in the dictionary, it is one of the words I cannot pinpoint to one particular meaning. I know how to conjugate it as an adverb, soon, sooner, soonest, but I have never been able to nail it and define it.
But saying he is coming soon doesn’t tell me if I should expect him in twenty minutes, two days, or even two years.
Thus, when the person I expected showed up two weeks later, and I asked him where he was, he said, ” I told you I would be here soon. But he didn’t tell me how soon. I should have asked, but I didn’t.
It could have been that I was making tiramisu and expecting him to walk in the door so we could sit together and have coffee and cake when he arrived.
Thus, I love wordplay. It is perplexing, and it takes my mind for a spin, forcing me to expand my sentences and give them depth like physical exercise does for the muscles in our bodies, and so is wordplay for my mind.
I wish all of you a charming day.
Shalom shalom,
Pat Garcia