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"Words flew away like birds" , by Erik Pevernagie (100 x 100 cm), 100 x 80 cm, oil on canvas xx

The day we finally decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the 'alleluias' of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid, and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning.

'Speaking and saying' are different languages. Speaking discharges resonance. Saying emanates ideas. Speaking needs eloquence. Saying needs content. Instead of "saying" something, we often hear people just "talking" profusely without saying anything.

Hearing and listening are two different lines. For hearing, we need eardrums. For listening, we need brains. For listening, we need the patience to initiate the cerebral scheme. People are often just "hearing" and not "listening" when words have no content or sensible links.

Let us speak less and say more. Why do people so often keep on speaking without ever saying anything?

Words often disappear furtively, as if they had never existed. They don’t stir any strings in our minds or thrill our emotions. They leave no trace in our memory and vanish simply like birds in the airy void of the sky.

Parole…Parole...

Phenomenon: Words, hearing, listening, speaking, saying.

Factual starting point:Lips and birds