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  "description": "The way a plumber, electrician, or carpenter fixes up your home so you can have a better life, so the poet works with language.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-01-22T14:09:12.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.wonderfell.org",
  "tags": [
    "Making words to overcome impossible situations is how I spent almost everyday of my adult life.",
    "Colore",
    "The Side-stories"
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  "textContent": "_Thursday, January 22, 2026_\n\nGood morning, The Wonder Fell Way.\n\nGlad you're back. O/\n\nOn with our show...\n\n...\n\nGetting the words right... my life's work.\n\nYou see the craft of the Poet is a very practical thing. The way a plumber, electrician, or carpenter fixes up your home so you can have a better life, so the Poet works with language.\n\nYour home and your words haven't always been here. Someone had to build them, care for them, keep them going.\n\nImagine your life without words. We're monkeys without the work I do.\n\nWe take language for granted because we rely on it, but words are made.\n\nThere are times when our words aren't doing justice to our shared experience.\n\nLike lately.\n\nEnter Poets.\n\nBecause Love always begs definition Poets are associated with romance. But my business is the word business. Assuring we have ways to best express our experience is what Poets are for.\n\nA carpenter helps you fix your front door. A Poet helps you heal your language.\n\nSure you could fix the door yourself. Maybe watch a YouTube How To or ask an AI bot to walk you through it.\n\nBut the professional who's been fixing doors everyday for nearly three decades is going to do a better job than you or AI.\n\nAnd so I write.\n\nMaking words to overcome impossible situations is how I spent almost everyday of my adult life.\n\nMy Country could use some help.\n\nHealing language finding, and at times making the right words, is my business.\n\nEnter Colore.\n\nThe stories we share aren't representing our best selves. Moreso, our words don't mean all they could, so they don't mean all they should.\n\nIf we want to be patriotic about it: In a Nation with a Living Document as its foundation, Poets are our Country's best defense.\n\nAnd so I write.\n\nThe idea of Colore is to remind us the power of our words and stories.\n\nThe juxtaposition of speeches and conversations in our day to day life (The Side-stories) with that of a story in a world of stories helps prove the point.\n\nOur language is not only how we define _things_ but also _ourselves_.\n\nWe can only ever be as good as our understanding of our words.\n\nA story is the best genre to remind us of the power of, and our responsibility for, our stories.\n\nColore will remain entertaining to some degree. Our stories go best when they are.\n\nBut a story's point and purpose isn't entertainment. Every tale told is a reminder of what it means to be human.\n\nIn earlier entries I wrote, like a social media artist painting a picture while you watch, I'd write about the crafting of Colore as I write it. Consider today's post doing that.\n\nWriters. O/ Make sure you know why you're writing whatever you're working on.\n\n\"Because I'm good at writing,\" is never reason enough to write anything at all.\n\n\"Because I have something important to share,\" is the best reason to write anything at all.\n\nAs always, thank you for reading.\n\nTake care and make wonderful this wonderful day.\n\n#### Wynn\n\nBrought to you by the emoji of the day: 🦉 __owl__\n\nPic Prompt: __Create a stick figure pen and ink illustration of a document and a quill on a desk on top of a hill at sunrise.__\n\nArchaic Slab",
  "title": "My Country Could Use Some Help",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-13T13:00:15.124Z"
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