PROMPT: Personal Item

Daily writing prompt
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).

I think it was a sword, back in the days when swordsmanship was among the subjects i studied. But I can say, with some measure of pride, that I really don’t know for sure because I don’t really put much value in owning things and have become ever less interested in possessing more stuff.

When you’re a traveler, they’re all just anchors, and not goods.

Anything expensive I buy better be absolutely essential, have multiple uses, or —ideally— both.

DAILY PHOTO: Lake Clara Meer

PROMPT: Podcasts

Daily writing prompt
What podcasts are you listening to?

I don’t properly listen to any, but I watch clips and segments from many on YouTube — mostly those of comedians, but some of a popular science or current events / international affairs / macroeconomic nature.

DAILY PHOTO: Autumn Ginko

PROMPT: Subject in School

Daily writing prompt
What was your favorite subject in school?

Depends upon my age and phase [as in whether I wanted to be a cowboy, a doctor, a race car driver, Batman, or a misanthrope / rapscallion at that particular time.]

Generally speaking, I had the strange (not to mention unproductive) tendency for science to top of the list while mathematics was usually dead last.

DAILY PHOTO: Bateshwar Temple Under a Cloud

PROMPT: Screen Time

How do you manage screen time for yourself?

Keep moving. One can’t be zombified by the machine when one is swimming, running, or otherwise getting a move on.

DAILY PHOTO: Ujjayanta Palace Gate

PROMPT: Time

Do you need time?

I suppose I do. Without it, instead of life being one thing after the other, it would be everything all at once. The latter seems chaotic. But maybe one could get used to being timeless. I have no basis for comparison. I’ve always been just in time. Come to think of it, it would be nice not to have to conjugate verbs.

Hive [Haiku]

massive hives
hang from high branches;
no bees in sight.