January/February 2008
Letter to the Editor
"Images are more evocative than words, more precise and potent in triggering
a wide range of associations and thereby enhancing creative thinking & memory."
- Tony Buzan
This is the old saw about a picture being worth a thousand words.
I have a favorite magazine, The Sun, which poses a theme each month. Words or phrases like:
- Finding Out
- Immigrants
- Blood
- Saying Yes
- Instructions
- The Dinner Table
Readers are invited to write on these topics from personal experience. The entries are usually between 100 and 300 words. Each entry demonstrates the power of a single word or phrase to conjure up a story with powerful impact, often bringing tears, or a laugh. Every story is different. Every story is contained in that word or short phrase, which pulls its unique trigger in each individual.
Words are astonishing things. They contain multitudes. Forgive. Ladder. Tree. Each leads a different person to their unique story. And telling those stories to each other binds us together in our shared humanity.
An image is a single story. I notice KQ poses each issue's theme in words, not in images.
Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
Huntington Beach, CA
To be educated in any true sense of the word, one must
use the library, and master the experiences of mankind.
-William T. Harris, 1893
