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I like heft.

Great word.

And hefty. I like that word too.

Heft is what you have.

And when your heft left, you have nothing left.

Heft speaks to meaning more than mass, to worth more than weight, to endurance more than durability. When I think of heft I want to capitalize it, ‘Heft’, as if a proper name to describe someone or to describe their value – not to describe qualities of blue jeans or trash bags.

Choices aren’t so much weighty, as they are hefty.

Writer choices, life choices, all choices …

Consider Rocky Shores. Great name. Conjures an image. Probably different in everyone’s mind but within a narrow range. Rocky Shores – real name, nick name, or shortened form? Perhaps boxer, union boss, tough – dirt under his nails for certain. Voice like gravel. Eyes show harsh judgment, his jaw shows bar brawling scars. Victory scars.

Or, place name – where surf pounds relentlessly, millennia upon millennia?

Invented guy needs a girlfriend. Should I call her Pebble Beach?

Maybe, just Charlie …

Choices we make are significant. Most choices put us on smooth sailing paths, minimal difficulty; but those choices we didn’t make, paths we didn’t explore, people we didn’t plumb depths of – what of those choices? Could we have been richer for it? Better, happier, more fulfilled – or wrecked like some torn up boat flung upon rocky shores?

I love hefty words. Hefty characters. And hefty choices – worth far more than we expect because we grow stronger bearing up under their weight …

In aggregate, does any name live up to its person?

Or does that person live up to their name?

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