Margaret Duarte

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The Power of Words

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I’ve always known that words have power.  I’m a writer after all.

But I don’t always apply what I know.  With the titles of my blog posts, for instance.  What a difference a title can make.

More importantly, words have power as we use them every day; with our friends and co-workers, with our family, and with the people we meet on the street.

We influence each other.  We reinforce each other.

We become what we think about and what we say.

The Power of Words

The following video on YouTube just reminded me of the power of words.

“Change your words.  Change your world.”

Let us use our words more consciously.

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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  6. Margaret Duarte says

    Hi Judy. This video represents the kind of story that should be shown on the news or TV more often, to teach or remind us of what's good about the world and how to make it a better place.