One way I like to think I'm speaking rightly is when I share with certain friends my enthusiasm for books I've read. Yesterday, my friend and her partner had lunch with my husband and I, and afterwards we browsed in two bookstores. I was pointing out some books I'd read recently and loved. Books like "Far from the Tree" and "Thinking Fast and Slow" and "The Trauma of Ordinary Life". Reading them affected me profoundly, and caused some aspects of living to be illuminated for me.
What is even better, is when a friend turns me on to an author or book and we can discuss it after I've read it. One friend and I have done this for years. No book club, just a talk on the phone or while walking. We enhance the reading experience further and connect it to our lives. Thus we can be in raptures over Murakami's new novel or James Lee Burke's latest mystery. It's fun, it exercises the mind and it gives a framework for examining life's mysteries.
Right speech enriches our lives, our connections to others and our behavior. A little reading nudge is often in that category.
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