40 Days / Make Life Better: 17

40 days of posts that make life better, 17:  Language allows us access to the inner workings of others' minds, as much as they have the skill and desire to express their thoughts, even if our frames of reference are quite different. And, with the written word, we can re-read til we get it.

Read: "Letters of Note": Helen Keller writes of her visit to the top of the Empire State Building.