In the interest of equal time, I offer evidence from a teleplay both praised and damned for its liberal views. In a 2001 episode, "War Crimes," of The West Wing, the deeply gifted Aaron Sorkin gave voice to Martin Sheen’s character, President Jed Bartlett:
Words! Words – when spoken out loud for the sake of performance – are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music, and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can’t.
Who will your words find today? Should you get a captive audience at some point this weekend, will you take the opportunity to move them and left them up?
I wish that for you.
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