Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.
After receiving my second Master’s degree, walking off the steps of the courthouse after the divorce was finalized – now who am I and what do I do with myself…
The Curse of Knowledge
Category: Daily Prompt
-
Daily writing promptWhat part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?
I always try to skip procrastination – it always seems to distract me from my routine and my primary purpose.
-
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
- Everything must change
- Nothing stays the same
- The young become the old
- And mysteries do unfold
- There are not many things in life you can be sure of
- Rain comes from the clouds
- Sun lights up the sky
- And hummingbirds do fly
- Winter turns to spring
- A wounded heart will heal
-
Today’s Prompt
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
Today’s prompt is an excellent question for a number of reasons.
Teaching in a Middle School
1 My dad told me when you get up in the morning if you have to think twice about going to work it’s time to get a new job .
Imagine seeing a miracle one a month and never exhausted after work…
I’ll be back shortly with the next reply.
-
Daily Prompt
One evening, after wrapping up the poker games and counting the “house” money, I was set on going out to party. However, my friend at the time was vehemently against the idea. His frustration quickly escalated into rage, but his words alone weren’t enough to dissuade me.
In a moment of fury, as the night deepened, he opened the nightstand drawer, pulled out a gun, and fired a shot in my direction. I suppose he thought such drastic action would change my mind. Well, it didn’t. First of all, I’m a former Marine—if you can’t aim, don’t bother shooting. Secondly, I was driven by a force that felt unstoppable at the time. Staying back was simply not an option.
As the film director Stephen Frears put it so perfectly in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), “It is beyond my control.” At that point in my life, nothing short of death could have kept me from pursuing my plan that night.
-
What have you been putting off doing? Why?
I have been putting off editing and producing the last chapter of my book, “A Bus Ride to Freedom, One Woman’s Journey“. I now see that I have been not working on the book because I lost sight of :
(1) the reason for writing the book.
(2) thinking I needed to be clear-headed, and in a good place to write on the book.
(3) allowing the world and its issues that I’m powerless over to interrupt my process.
(4) not implementing the trials and tribulations that interrupt my writing – when in actuality the trials and tribulations – should most assuredly be a part if not a chapter in the book.
(5) thinking the final chapter should be some kind of big bang!
(6) allowing others to get on The Bus and take the wheel and start driving their ideas on The Bus that was designed for me.
-
Prompt
If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time?
Think on things that make me angry, sad, melancholy, until I feel exhausted and think on things that are peaceful, things that if I could, I would change for the better of mankind…
-
Daily Prompt
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?
Posts have no feedback
Posts make no sense
Posts are not subject matter relevant
I’m not God centered or emotionally balanced
