pat loughery

I’m a big fan of Wordles, as you may be able to tell recently 🙂  Any way to flip perspectives a bit and give us a way to see reality in a different way gets a thumbs-up in my book.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. The bigger a word in the image, the more times it was used in the text.

Here’s a very interesting one that I just created.  I was curious about how the Rule of St. Benedict laid out in a word graph.  Since there’s so much discussion these days (in my own little world in any case) of the Rule, I wondered how the text presents itself.  I used the 1949 translation that’s in public domain.

So here’s an image for you (RSS readers may have to click through):

What does that image mean to you?