Words

Perhaps I am simply overtired after last night's shoddy sleep, but certain words are striking me as odd today. In my state of false hyperlucidity, it seems strange that, while generally it’s bad to enable someone, no one wants to be disabled. Moreover—although I normally roll my eyes at excessively P.C. terminology—the disabled are really quite able, and I agree that differently abled is a more accurate, if unwieldy, term.

Meanwhile, jam is delicious, but no one wants to be in one, especially if it’s made of traffic. As for turning over something—a new leaf, a piece of paper—over what? Don’t we really turn it upside-down? But turning things upside-down is something else entirely.