WORD OF THE DAY: “CORNERSTONE”

Kumi Yamashita. Building Blocks, 1997

Noun:

The chief foundation on which something is constructed or developed.
An important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based.

Synonyms:

anchor – essence – pillar – root – substance

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. ~Sigmund Freud

llustration by Clifford Harper/agraphia.co.uk

(by Michelle Maynard-Koenig)

Life outside my computer
is different, you see,
providing an opportunity
to inhale fresh air and breathe.

To engage in conversation,
face to face, side by side,
with people coming and going
and even passerbys.

Pay a visit to Mother Nature,
admire the beauty she radiates;
brushstrokes of trees, animals, flowers,
moon, stars, sky, and sun rays.

Life passes too quickly
for me to not take part,
to witness all I can
before it’s my time to depart.

Life outside my computer
is different, you see,
it’s the cornerstone of living
amid a universal masterpiece.

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