Avy--
Welcome, from another.
Have you published any of your writings?
You know (and, in contrast to many of my other posts, I
am not trying to be funny here), your question made me
think about trying to describe what words, and language in
general, mean to me. They are so important to me that I
can't find the right words to say how important they are!
The closest thing I can think of is a quote from an
advertisement, that language truly is "the fabric of our
lives".