Wordle

About six months ago I came across an online program called Wordle. It allows you to input your own text, choose colors and fonts, and create a personal masterpiece. Frequently used words are bigger, and you can choose to have some words not displayed at all.

This would be a great gift for a friend, parents, or significant other. Because you can input whatever text you want, the image could be personal text or copied from a published work. Aside from creating a gift for someone special, this is a great way to display text that has special meaning to you. It'd be great to input your wedding vows and create a framed image to hang on the wall. For the image above, I used a ceremony reading from The Knot. You can see the original text below.

What would you use this for?

"Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart, and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us, shout that soul's desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Show me how you offer to your people and the world the stories and the songs you want our children's children to remember, and I will show you how I struggle, not to change the world, but to love it.

Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude, knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging. Dance with me in the silence and the sound of small daily words, holding neither against me at the end of the day.

And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest intentions has died away on the wind, dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale of breath that is breathing us all into being, not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.

Don't say, "Yes!" Just take my hand and dance with me."

-- Oriah
Visit www.wordle.net to create your own!