Writing Prompt: The Wanderer Tell us about the top five places you’ve always wanted to visit. Africa – I would love to visit all parts of Africa and explore this rich continent that I believe is central to humanity’s existence. Vilcabamba, Ecuador – It is said to be one of the places with the most…
Category: experiences
modern day epistolary
Writing Prompt: Handwriting Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. I love nothing more than hand written letters. I’ve always wanted to find a pen pal whom I can write snail mail letters to, to get the feel of what it was like to anticipate a response, rather than email, text or…
random thoughts #1
No one wants to hear that there are days when I feel so afraid that all I want is for the world to end so that everything that makes it ugly would disappear and never return. No one wants to know that some days I go out on my porch at midnight, lay on my…
the dust that i am
I’ve come to realize over the years that my existence is like a tiny atom/molecule/single celled creature under a microscope; a tiny speck of dust on some distant planet in some distant galaxy, in a possibly distant universe ensconced within another atom filled with universes. And that atom that houses many universes is a single…
uncaged voice
Writing Prompt: Voice Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. i am trembling voice. i am fear finding footing and tongue. i am freedom picking the lock to my cage with skeleton key words that find their way through tumblers and springs. the door will open and i will be set upon…
writing to dissolve cages
Writing Prompt: Singular Sensation If one experience or life change results from you writing your blog, what would you like it to be? Something is here, among us, changing everything that we are. – me I would want that my writing experience free me in the way described by Osho. I want to fearlessly write…
virtual window to my soul
Writing Prompt: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall Think of your blog as a mirror: what does it reveal? Consider your blog name, theme choice, design, bio, posts… what does every element tell you about yourself? To be honest, I’m not sure what my blog reveals about me. At least not on a deep level. I…
wickedness unbound
Writing Prompt: Wicked Witch Write about evil: how you understand it (or don’t), what you think it means, or a way it’s manifested, either in the world at large or in your life. I don’t understand evil. The desire to be evil eludes me beyond the very basic instinct to defend myself against someone who…
a sobering existence
I’ve been traveling most of the week. My very good friend’s grandmother died and I wanted to be there for her. Her grandmother was an incredibly prepared woman. She planned every aspect of her funeral down to the coffin, memorial cards and obituary. There was nothing that needed to be done or paid for except…
fearless in dusty blue
Writing Prompt: Fearless Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. Sadly, what I’m about to write is not fiction. It is a very real conversation from a few days ago with a young 20 something who made a most unfortunate discovery. Her experience once again shows me that everything has changed, but…
food and the body
I attended a nutrition seminar today. It was refreshing to see a nurse practitioner who actually addressed eating habits when faced with patients with serious health problems. So few in the medical industry address the foods we eat as one of the major causes of most dis-ease. Processed foods are destructive to our system, tossing…
yawning to the sun
Writing Prompt: Just Another Day Our days our organized around numerous small actions we repeat over and over. What’s your favorite daily ritual? Each morning when I awake I enjoy looking out the window at the sun. The sun reminds not only that I was able to see another day, but that we, as a species, exist…
upon the shelf
Writing Prompt: Shelf Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. Little eight year old girls make soccer balls in Pakistan; fingers roughened by sturdy leather, needles and thick thread. Bottoms hover just above dirt paved streets as they squat to work under the noon’s blazing sun hanging from a low sky. Bodies…
the need for thought
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought. – Henri Poincare What a profound truth. I find that most people are at one end or another, but rarely in a space of thoughtful introspection and observation. I try at all times to examine all…
of my womb
Writing Prompt: Legacy Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. My daughters are my legacy. I give them to the future in hopes that they may discover a way to change this world and set humans free. They are the seed from my womb, sprouted and born to the sun, ready to…
nocturne
Sitting inside myself, watching myself, seeing me as an observer, and allowing the world to pass through me, through my skin. I am really here, experiencing this existence. I see other people experiencing their existence and seeing the world from perspectives I could never imagine. Tchaikovsky’s Nocturne op. 19 played by Nina Kotova is the…
i’m not coming back
Writing Prompt: Karma Chameleon Reincarnation: do you believe in it? I neither believe nor disbelieve. I don’t know and would never pretend to know. What I’m clear about are the many questions I have about the idea of reincarnation if it does exist. Based on the conclusions I’ve come to, I absolutely under no circumstances…
the longing
Writing Prompt: Longing Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. I am longing for true freedom, bedecked in translucent gems and emerald silk lace. Freedom that is jackfruit and ginep sweet. Mango flesh on my wanting tongue. Feeding me a ripe future. I want freedom unbound, chain-less and naked in wide open…
laughter off limits
Writing Prompt: Too Soon? Can anything be funny, or are some things off limits? Given the nature of the culture, there are definitely some things that are off limits. How does one make funny the murder of an infant? What sort of joke can be created around children who are beheaded and blown to bits because…
seeking bridges to cross
Writing Prompt: Divide Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. The world is divided. Some humans are at odds with nature and each other, even at odds with their own soul. There are no bridges in sight, no passageways back to each other. Most are lost in their own survival, to stressed…