Dear Humans,

I was pushing pizza dough into a pan this weekend, and, because my hands were covered with cooking spray, I couldn’t get the lid off the jar of pizza sauce. So I silently held the jar out to my sister-in-law who was at the counter, and, without a word, she twisted the lid off and handed it back to me.

Researchers know that most human communication happens through how we say things or body language, but very little is communicated in the actual words we say.

We might not need words to get through our day-to-day lives, but they sure do help make those lives meaningful. Words are for singing and rhyming and telling jokes and cracking open the big ideas that turn our days into lives and connect those lives to the lives of all the other humans wordlessly going about their daily existence.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt