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Malicious, malevolent, myopic.  No?  How about mordant, misconstrue, malefactor?   I am muddling around ‘m’ words today,  after my friend Laura gave me a suggestion for my three words project.

Honestly,  I never considered the adjective mordant to be a complimentary one.    While I, like pretty much everyone else I know,  can be a bit sarcastic at times,  mordant seems to me to describe an almost bitter,  heavily sarcastic tone that I mostly try to avoid.   Sarcasm mostly seems just too easy to me.  A bit like kicking a man when he’s down.    I can’t say I never use sarcasm,  but I don’t use it a lot and I never consider it my finest hour.

One of the most useful communication tricks I’ve ever learned is when listening to someone,   I always paraphrase what they said and repeat it back to them.    Whether I understood them correctly or not,  this most always helps to clarify whatever has been said.     As a writer I most always want very much to be understood.  Not for my words to be mis-construed or mis-understood or mis-taken.   I would like to think that most of the time these blog posts are fairly clear and understandable to my readers.     I always greatly appreciate comments that make clear my message was heard.

I would never refer to one of my readers and commentators as a malefactor,   someone who has done something evil or wrong.    And I want to make clear that I do love and appreciate my friends in the inspirational niches.    I am genuinely grateful to everyone who responded to my previous post and left three suggested words as an inspiration to future posts.     I have already selected a dozen of them that I will definitely use and will continue to consider any and all three word suggestions that I receive.     If you can think of three random words and would like to see me write a blog post about them,    please leave a comment with your three words below.     Here’s hoping your new week is off to a great start.