Speaking Out

I'm a written word kind of guy. Now, I can give a decent presentation (although I'll never be an orator), but I'm much better writing stuff down and pouring over it and then publishing it in some form than spontaneous speaking. I seem to just put my foot in my mouth all the time when I'm speaking to people. While I enjoy trying to be witty, too often I'm not quick witted enough to ask the right questions when I should. Despite all this, I talk too much and must check myself in that regard (something I fail at too often).

It is true that I do not always edit blog posts very carefully; however one can choose present a carefully crafted statement when writing should one decided to. I rather wish I could figure out how to edit what I was verbalizing as well.

You know, I see a trend brewing in my posts lately. I don't seem to have any conclusions. I have been staring at this post for a bit now, wondering exactly where I was going to go with it, but I don't think I can think of anything all that good. Perhaps I'll return to our friend Jacques whom I quoted last night:

O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,
And says, if ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!
I am ambitious for a motley coat.

Yes, indeed. To be as one of Shakespeare's fools; to perceive things and state them without irritating people… that would be good.