I am passionate about language.
As a kid I used to have two recurring dreams. One was about waking up as a baby and realizing that the eight or so years I had thought I lived were really just a dream and I had to live the whole thing all over again. The other was about being the only person in my family who didn’t speak.
Neither dream was frightening, but the one thing that always stayed with me about that was just how much I really loved talking.
As I grew up, it wasn’t so much about loving to talk as it was about language itself, making meaning, creating meaning. Is there anything more beautiful, more powerful than crafting a sentence?
You begin with one simple thought and you make the words dance, partner them, change them around, dress them up or down, put them in where they really shouldn’t fit, make them move lyrically or cacophonously depending on your whim.
When you finish, those words perform together, united for the first time and they mean something. They can move mountains, they can move a person to laughter or tears, or they can do nothing at all — simply resonate unuttered, unread but powerful, like a sleeping volcano.
This passion belongs to Catherine, our director of operations.