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Instinctively
Do I trust my instincts? This is the question I was asked in a daily prompt recently and it got me thinking. Do I? A better question, should I? I believe the human will and mind is fallen. By extension, then, it’s not unlikely that human instinct is far different. Be that as it may,…
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Location, Location, Location
As another Daily Writing Prompt has asked me today, “If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?” We have to remove several factors first. First, the factor of where I hope my children will go to school. The school I’ve gone to for the past thirteen years of my life is…
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Proud?
These writing prompts don’t all make sense to me. Some do, in fact, most do; but there are days, like this one, when the prompt does not make sense to me. Why ask us what makes us proud? It seems to me that this is a little bit of a loaded question. Everyone feels pressured…
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Stuff and Things…
As a reply to a Daily Writing Prompt I figured this one was going to be worth the time to tell about. I have a lot of things going on, and a lot of thoughts about all of them, so this might be a longer post. First, I’m a senior in high school, and there’s…
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May 21st: “Thunderstorm”
I am sitting on a wood fence. It is simple, a standard two-pole, two wide-spaced-slat affair made of roughly hewn, generally rectangular-shaped odds and ends of wood. It has been recently edited; the inexperienced, pale tan and peachy slats show where the new bits are. The rest is weathered and grey, splinter-less and with varying…
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Sorry!
There has been a lot of black tea.
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Nothing
Sometimes you don’t have to move. Sometimes you need to not move. Sometimes you can just sit. Be. Stay. See. Live. Exist. Experience. Do you watch the sunset? Or the sunrise? You’re watching that moment come and go, a moment Someone set in place and carved into proverbial stone long before you existed. And that…
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World View
The two jewel-bright male dragonflies fly over my head as I watch the minnows, the wings of one rasping against the wings of the other as they attempt to shove their opponent off course in their fight to reach the fleeing female. Their rasping harmonizes with the buzzing of Idaho cicadas, relative peace compared with…
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Featured Image for #the-lady-of-the-seas
Sometimes, ideas come to me. Sometimes they come in a flash, sometimes they come slowly — pencil line by pencil line, key tap by key tap, word by word. The idea for this image came late in the evening, and I stayed up till nearly 11 perfecting it. Never have I paid more attention to…
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