The Need For (Parentheticals)

If you think about it (it's good to think), parentheticals are the straw that stirs the good drink of understanding (and who doesn't like to understand, let alone enjoy a good drink). Without parentheticals, everything would just be too spread-sheetish; linear; flat; dot-connected-to-dot; black/white; monotone; unexplainable; hear-what-I-say-not-what-I-mean; sound-bite/bumper-sticker dimensions; just-the-facts Joe Fridays; clean, straight. (In other words: boring; lacking; frustrating).

On the contrary (life is full of contradictions), we live in a world that's all about color; bumps; curves; loops; round-abouts; dipsy-do's; messiness; the-need-for-read-between-the-lines-explanations; Power Points; be-that-as-it-mays; on-the-other-hands; what-ifs; diversity; Socratic dialogue; subtleties; interpretations (well, you get the picture: it's a box of chocolates thing: and that's all I gots ta say 'bout that, Forest).

So let's embrace, appreciate and promote the actual (well) written and (well) spoken words, facts, and matter-of-facts (especially when they are accurate and clear). But lets also celebrate the need for parentheticals (because words alone aren't always meaningful). Good parentheticals (as opposed to many of my previous parentheticals) - can help explain a lot of (what-the-heck?) things that need more (in-depth) explaining.

Parentheticals are Good. (Parenthetically speaking ;)