The joy of writing…
Pilgrim on a Long, Long Journey
The written word, how valuable it is. Mesopotamia developed the first written words,
“The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoricorigin. This antecedent of the cuneiform script was a system of counting and recording goods with clay tokens.” This quotation is from the abstract of a University of Texas online article by Denise Schmandt-Besserat. (See: https://sites.utexas.edu/dsb/tokens/the-evolution-of-writing/)
It was of course central to establishing civilizations, i.e. records had to be kept. Reproducible written literature then became doable.
I love what started those thousands of years ago. I am having a mind to mind connection with you. Likely, after we are both gone, I will still be having mind to mind connections with others. It may simply be my grandchildren and great grandchildren etc. reading my memoirs and perhaps my…
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