#21

To whom it may concern,

To say nouns work in mysterious ways is not helpful. To say a noun is a noun is true but isn’t helpful either. So we say a noun is a person, place, or thing in no particular order. That’s better but it is still a broad category. That song never ends because there are more people, places, and things than there are nouns. So we have to decide which of them are useful enough to be nouns, and which are useless. 

An artist said, “All art is quite useless.” Art is a noun, but I think he was giving himself a compliment, or at least a backhanded insult that seems cruel but is actually high praise. Because the only way to be in a place where nobody is, is to be lost. That is also true in order think a thing nobody thinks or to love a person nobody loves, in no particular order. The lost, the useless, the loving. We are blessed, we are the true explorers. Come with me and I will be our guide, though I do not know the way. If we can’t see the point that means we’re going the right way to find the people, places, and things that are too useless to be nouns, but are the pillars of heaven.

As always,

Matthew Cameron