PROMPT: Most Important

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What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

Heart and brain tie. Without the former I’m not alive; without the later I am not.

PROMPT: Change

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What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?

If I can spark the occasional smile of amusement or trigger a line of thought once in a while, that’s enough. In the long run, it’s all dust. (That latter commentary was more on the thought-provoking than the amusing side of the equation.)

PROMPT: Alternate Universe

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Describe your life in an alternate universe.

There are flying cars here. I fear my death will be by chucked beer bottle.

PROMPT: Expensive Meal

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What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

I can’t remember, but it’s never been worth it. Seems like the more one pays for a meal, the hungrier one leaves it. Enjoy your “foam reductions” if you like, but it’s not for me. I’ll take street food any day — cheap, filling, flavorful street food. It’s got character and doesn’t try too hard.

My palate may be unrefined, but — also — I’m no sucker.

PROMPT: News

Daily writing prompt
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

A bus strike starts today. My chance of dying on the grill of a crosstown bus is substantially reduced for some indefinite period.

PROMPT: 30 Things

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List 30 things that make you happy.

1.) love; 2.) a glorious turn of phrase; 3.) discovery; 4.) walking; 5.) swimming; 6.) stumbling upon an interesting and / or novel idea; 7.) movement; 8.) travel; 9.) street food; 10.) quiet; 11.) health; 12.) recognition that when things are at their very worst, they must get better — because everything is impermanent; 13.) an intense stretch; 14.) Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass;” 15.) undiscovered country; 16.) the hanging moment; 17.) a mystery-laden world; 18.) a moment of flow; 19.) a mountain path; 20.) a clear stream; 21.) the way of non-adversariality; 22.) a thing stripped to its simplest form; 23.) the moment breath turns the tide; 24.) animals being animals; 25.) a brief instant of free fall; 26.) the recognition that something that used to cause me angst or fear no longer does; 27.) when body, movement, and the world fall into alignment; 28.) first contact with someplace / something new; 29.) connection; 30.) the first sign that the struggle is paying off.

PROMPT: Curious

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What are you curious about?

Everything… except mid-18th century Dunwich Haberdashery.

PROMPT: Describe

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How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

“Handsome beyond words.” … And then hope they continue to not be able to see me.

PROMPT: Traditions

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What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?

All of them. As a traveler, I am more an anthropologist of traditions than a practitioner of them.

PROMPT: Typical

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Was today typical?

At some level of granularity, you could slice it that way.