Recently in cut my right thumb will loading some boxes; didn’t stop bleeding without direct pressure for a long while.

Describing the incident later To my kids, I noticed the difference in reaction I got depending on which word are used to describe the action that created the injury.

Nick seems the most minimal… it was just a little nick. 

Cut about the same. But if you say you sliced your finger…like slicing a piece of meat…

It evokes a different reaction.

The power of words.

Good.