PROMPT: Movies

Daily writing prompt
What are your top ten favorite movies?

No particular order: Kung Fu Hustle, Caddyshack, Matrix, Inception, John Wick 4, Airplane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Hero, and Drunken Master II.

PROMPT: Writing

Daily writing prompt
What do you enjoy most about writing?

EPIPHANIES.

But, if you think about it, writing is miraculous. In the scheme of gifts that nature grants, it is way out beyond left field. Encoding ideas and images in simple characters in a way that can evoke emotional or cognitive responses in readers is kind of a superpower. (As is reading.)

PROMPT: Live

Daily writing prompt
What do you love about where you live?

It continues to offer daily learning opportunities. Plus, the people are friendly and the climate is quite good.

PROMPT: Positive Emotion

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What positive emotion do you feel most often?

Curiosity. I exist in a state of perpetual perplexity. For example, is curiosity an emotion? If so, is it a positive one? I know it includes a feeling that drives me to make a decision or take an action, which would be an emotion by definition. But I don’t see it on a list of emotions. I consider it positive, but I also try to avoid putting value judgements on all things. Maybe it’s neutral. Can an emotion be neutral?…

PROMPT: Plan

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How do you plan your goals?

Haphazardly with a side of slapdashery.

PROMPT: Emergency Preparedness

Daily writing prompt
Create an emergency preparedness plan.

1.) Run like hell.

2.) Dive headlong (with perfect timing as the blast begins.)

3.) Sigh with relief as I look back at the roiling fireball.

PROMPT: Word [Overly Used]

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What is a word you feel that too many people use?

“Nazi” and other terms used to hyperbolize the villainy of those who are, at most, moderately villainous. It allows people to dismiss – rather than debate – beliefs with which they are in disagreement, while – simultaneously – it diminishes understanding of the extremes of horror the world has known.

PROMPT: Peace

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What brings you peace?

The Peace Train. [Until it gets to my local hub, from whence it comes on a Peace Scooter.] Sometimes it takes several days for delivery, but other times it’s same day. I guess it depends on whether there is any in stock regionally.

PROMPT: Profession

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What profession do you admire most and why?

Nurse. I think it takes a tremendous level of humility and compassion. Also, I suspect it may be among the last handful of human jobs (as we know them now) to still exist once AI-robots start doing pretty much all productive tasks better, faster, and more efficiently than humans. I think long after our doctors are machines, we will have human nurses.

PROMPT: Sell

Daily writing prompt
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

Experiences and lessons.