Welcome to The New World

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.

A poet's journal, (and poetry), for a New World.

In case you wanted a TL;DR: There you go. ^

Welcome to The New World. O/

Kinda snuck up on you over the past decade or so, huh?

We could blame the change on a lot of things: Politics, AI, The Internet, The Not- Really-News News, Greedy Billionaires... but there's only ever one reason:

Our words.

How we use our language, and why, is how we shape our world. Text messaging and Internet communication has left us feeling safe from the immediate consequences of our word choices.

Repercussions are still here. They just arrive differently. Consider the daily and nightly news as of late as the repercussions of our new ways to share words.

Send a good message of hope and human consideration to someone online and as soon as it's read it lives in the story of who and what you are.

Troll someone and the same rule applies.

Breath dissipates; the printed word remains.

What we write leaves a lasting impression in ways spoken words never could.

Your great-great-grandmother's Facebook nags and loves you from her grave.

The dead talk with us, and walk for us, everyday on screens across the world.

Welcome to The New World: The Land of The Living Dead.

This kind of living comes with a new sense of responsibility; it's a poet's dream come true.

Every text and post made online potentially immortalizes you.

How's your character? What's your legacy?

Generations from now will know. Anyone who reads you today knows, too.

This is a point of order and a call for responsibility concerning the words we share.

Are you comfortable with everyone else defining who and what your are and what your life can mean? If so, AI your responses and live an inconsequential life.

Or realize you are your own living, breathing Large Language Model with the opportunity to change the world.

In at least some small way we all change the story of each day, everyday we're alive.

What's your contribution to today?

Are you making each day wonderful?

You can; you know.

The words you choose define you. A few decades ago that only seemed to matter in mostly momentary ways... unless you were a writer.

Hey, New World: Speaking is not writing. What you write lasts.

That's one of the great things about it.

The written word has consequences we seldom discuss. We say the cliché: 'Think before you speak.' But you should at least think twice as long before you post or share text. Those words might last forever... forever defining you.

We get what we give remember. Every time your text or post is read you are giving that to someone.

So it comes back.

Again.

If you grumbled and complained about a bad day on Monday online, you're still a grumpy nag on Friday regardless how you feel to the person reading it on Friday.

And so goes the state of the Modern World. Reporters, journalists, everyday people stuck in walls made by their walls of text.

A note of caution in today's entry for you to help make sense of the seeming chaos of late. You are responsible for everything you write and share: Forever.

Before you text or post make sure you'll mean it next year or a even a hundred years from now.

Take care, give care, and make a wonderful day.