Don’t Put A Spider In Your Mouth
I have read as well as written essays as short as three paragraphs and as long as a full length book.
It was my grandfather or my High-school English teacher who told me that here was no use in making a thought stretch further, or longer than necessary.
I didn’t think of it back then but now I think it to say when do you know, when an assay, or thought is long enough, sufficiently long and not too tremendously stretched so that the reader (who is turned into a thinker) ought say to self, “Done!”
Obviously after the thought is complete and a thought is complete when you have notified who you are talking to or with that this thought is for not only the reader but for anyone who wants to read or needs to read or will feel better after he or she reads what was written or spoken.
I believe the thought in this short essay is obviously directed to specific people, and maybe even a few dogs and some cats.
G David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue (1994) and Midrash and Working Out Of The Book (2004) Currently a volunteer with the Cincinnati J Meals On Wheels, Schwartz continues writing. His newest book, Shards And Verse (2011) is now in stores or can be order online.