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About B Gourley

Bernie Gourley is a writer living in Bangalore, India. His poetry collection, Poems of the Introverted Yogi is now available on Amazon. He teaches yoga, with a specialization in pranayama, and holds a RYT500 certification. For most of his adult life, he practiced martial arts, including: Kobudo, Muay Thai, Kalaripayattu, and Taiji. He is a world traveler, having visited more than 40 countries around the globe.

PROMPT: Ideal Week

Daily writing prompt
Describe your ideal week.

My ideal week would consist of seven days, each day of about twenty-four hours. You could fit four of them in a month with room to spare.

PROMPT: Athletes

Daily writing prompt
Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.

Muay Thai fighters. To survive careers spanning of hundreds of fights, taking knees and elbows, is a feat. While they might not be fighting as often these days, you still probably have to go through a period of a fight per week to raise up to the point where you can have a more sensible rest-to-fight ratio.

DAILY PHOTO: Mường Hoa Valley

DAILY PHOTO: Golden Stream (Suối Vàng)

PROMPT: Relax

Daily writing prompt
How do you relax?

Tai Chi, Chai Tea, the usual suspects.

PROMPT: Use Regularly

Daily writing prompt
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?

“Facetious.” But I only use it so much because I am it so much.

DAILY PHOTO: Cat Cat Tourism “Village”

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Air Force & Air Defense Museum, Hanoi

Downed wreckage pile

PROMPT: Grudge

Daily writing prompt
Are you holding a grudge? About?

No, but it sounds like fun — starts with a “GRR” and rhymes with “fudge.”

PROMPT: Traveled from Home

Daily writing prompt
Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

”Home” and “away” lost all meaning long ago, becoming a false dichotomy. “Furthest” is likely presumed to mean the most distant in space, but that is not always the greatest mental distance. Sometimes a place changes while you were away, and that shift through time becomes the most jarring distance.