DAILY PHOTO: Shadow-Mottled Mountain

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Photograph taken at Sevanavank beside Sevan Lake in northern Armenia. It shows a green mountain mottled by cloud shadows.

PROMPT: Song Lyric

Daily writing prompt
What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever?
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
Keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Might be later to win
For the times they are a changin'

From “The Times They Are a-Changin'” Bob Dylan (1963 – from the eponymously named album.)

DAILY PHOTO: Sa Pa Lake

Photograph of Sa Pa Lake on a dreary morning. Taken from Xuan Vien toward Ngu Chi Son.
Photograph of Sa Pa Lake, facing toward Trúc Lâm Đại Giác Zen Monastery.
Photograph looking across Sa Pa Lake on a monsoon morning. Mountains in the background.

Your Own Way

PROMPT: Ending

Daily writing prompt
If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose?

Like many, I feel that for such an excellent and powerful book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has a muddled ending.

Far be it for me to rewrite Twain, but I might’ve done some chopping.

DAILY PHOTO: Creek in the Woods

PROMPT: Biggest Dream

What’s your biggest dream?

To meet a Yeti.

Wine & Song

DAILY PHOTO: Rice Paddy & Mountain, Cao Bang

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Photograph with rice field in the fore and mountains and sky in the background. Taken in rural Cao Bang, Vietnam.

PROMPT: Actually Kept?

Daily writing prompt
What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept?

I must say the “actually” in this prompt feels a bit accusatory and judgmental — as though, as a matter of practice, the answerer is generally unreliable. It also sounds like a question for someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder — otherwise who is making promises to whom? I am either one being or I contain multitudes, there being two seems at once too crowded and too lonely.