Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I'm so happy in my interactions with my grandchildren.  Their enthusiasm is contagious, and the love touches me.  My one year old grandson calls me a version of Grandma, and his face lights up when he sees me.  The three month old smiles and gurgles, and is irresistable.  And the eight year old is conversing in her emails.  Does it matter what the words are?  Not at these ages.  What is everything is the delivery.  And really, that holds partially true no matter what a person's age.  It's how we say it.  Is everything the President is saying so bad?  It is more the anger and rage and his facial expressions that belie his words.  Whatever is said coming out of anger is going to be offputting.  That is why when his one speech was measured, people sighed in relief.  It's the tweeting rants and the blaming others and grimaces that tell us he is not coming from a place of balance and perspective.  Maybe it's good we have these clues, but his mannerisms are a crash course in how NOT to communicate.  There is a disconnect between his words and intentions.  That's what is being noticed more than what he is saying.