Imperatives

We happenned upon this by the pier of Coal Harbor, Vancouver Canada. I love it! A slide frame attached to the post with metal garden wires. It swung gently to the wind and caught my eye and I smiled when I saw those words. I love this. Such a good use of the imperative sentence which had been relegated to all things boring and tedious. And what a waste! Imperative sentences have such powerful impetus yet we have reduced it to be, essentially, the language for chores. Wash separately, the tag on your clothes would say for example.

Think! If we applied this intense construction to the business of our lives, think of what we could do. Imagine how brave we would be.

So genius an idea, I think I'll do the same in Chicago when I get back. Maybe in some small way some I can repay the same person who gave me the delightful gift of humor and wit on a sunny Friday afternoon by giving yet another unsuspecting person the opportunity to find themselves peering contentedly in the distance and in their own lives.

So dear reader, I invite you to think in imperatives, even for just a day, and then see what happens. Read intently. Love unabashedly. Floss precisely. Peer contentedly!