PROMPT: Direction

Daily writing prompt
What gives you direction in life?

Once upon a time, it used to be a compass, but now it’s GPS. Soon, AI will be telling me not to worry my pretty little head about things like direction, that it will get me where I need to go.

DAILY PHOTO: Yellow River of Stone Mountain

DAILY PHOTO: Blue Sky & Golden Grass

Photograph of blue skies over golden grasses, taken in Chaminuka Nature Reserve outside of Lusaka, Zambia.
Photograph of tawny tall grass, taken in Chaminuka Nature Reserve outside of Lusaka, Zambia.
Photograph of tawny tall grass under blue skies, taken in Chaminuka Nature Reserve outside of Lusaka, Zambia.

PROMPT: Quote

Daily writing prompt
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” – Mark Twain

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What you imagine, you create.” – Siddhartha Guatama Buddha

All restatements of one key principle, that our [mental / emotional] experience of the world is an entirely separate thing from the world itself. The latter one has almost no control over, the former one can reach a state of complete control (granted through painstaking and relentless effort.)

DAILY PHOTO: Rail Bridge, Tuscaloosa

Photograph of the railway bridge over the Black Warrior River from the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk Park of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Photograph of the railway bridge over the Black Warrior River from the Hugh R. Thomas Bridge in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Photograph of the railway bridge over the Black Warrior River from the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk Park of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

PROMPT: Favorite Holiday

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

Halloween. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. (Suck it, Andy Williams, December is too cold.) And I like a holiday that has a dark side and embraces it.

I like Thanksgiving’s food but think a practice of being grateful just once a year is bad form.

PROMPT: Camping

Daily writing prompt
Have you ever been camping?

Many times. Of course, one could argue that living in a house is just camping in a sturdy tent with a lot of gadgets.

DAILY PHOTO: A Little Birdhouse

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Photograph of a birdhouse on the Fairy Trail at Sawnee Mountain Park.

DAILY PHOTO: Tiny Planets

Photograph of orb sculptures in Atlanta's Westside Park.
Photograph of orb sculptures in Atlanta's Westside Park.
Photograph of orb sculptures in Atlanta's Westside Park.

PROMPT: Productive

Daily writing prompt
When do you feel most productive?

Generally, I feel most productive when I’m in the act of producing something, but I have had some measure of success in tricking myself into feeling productive when I’m actually goofing off at high intensity.