Changing reality through the power of words

You can do remarkable things with words. You can even change reality if you put your mind to it.

Normally every Sunday afternoon, the Beaker Folk are set the Community Chores. It has to be Sunday, because that's when most people don't have day jobs. And when they are allocated their chores, everybody grumbles. Nobody likes chores, especially if they include the draining of fields or the sandpapering of balustrades or doing the laundry for the entire Community. And so I've been engaging in some verbal creativity.

From now on, Chores have been renamed "Enlightenments". In this way I hope that everybody sees what they are doing as a step in their spiritual journey, a discipline of submission, a piece of engodliment, if you will.

However I've just seen them come back from today's enlightening, which mostly involved dragging the debris out of a number of ditches. And now I'm going to have to redefine the meaning of the word "enlightened", to mean "exhausted, sweaty and covered in mud."