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PROMPT: Good Life
Daily writing prompt
What are the most important things needed to live a good life?
Right mind, healthy body, and good company.
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PROMPT: Name Change
Sam I. Am. It rhymes. It’s easy to remember. It’s short. It’s not pretentious, like Reginald B. Farnsworth IV. What more could one ask for?
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Prompt: Chocolate Bar
Describe your dream chocolate bar.
Dark chocolate (not too bitter) with whole almonds.
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PROMPT: Book from Childhood
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?
Green Eggs and Ham is the earliest children’s book that made an impression — mostly for its catchy lyricism. Robinson Crusoe was the first story that resonated.
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PROMPT: Three Books
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
Steven Kotler’s The Rise of Superman changed the way I looked at mind-body development.
Water Margin [a.k.a. Outlaws of the Marsh] convinced me a sprawling epic could be worth reading if it was done well, it kicked my love of Chinese Literature into high gear, and it started me on the path of learning Chinese.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson had a major influence on my early philosophical development — especially the titular essay.
Now, I’m thinking I should’ve pushed one of these out for Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, but perhaps another time.
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PROMPT: One Simple Thing
Daily writing prompt
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
A walk in the park. Most things in life are no walk in the park, but you can’t say that about a walk in the park.
[This message brought to you by WALK IN THE PARK.]
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PROMPT: Unplug
Daily writing prompt
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?
There are many levels to this. At one end is getting up and moving for a half hour or hour. At the other end is going for a ten-day hike in a part of the planet that has no cell service whatsoever. (Yes, such spaces still exist, but are continually getting smaller — mostly valleys of large mountain ranges.)
This is probably not as big a challenge for me as for many because I find it neither that enjoyable nor that necessary to be jacked in.
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PROMPT: Friend
What quality do you value most in a friend?
The ability to converse intelligently on a wide range of subjects.
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“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens [w/ Audio]
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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