It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole wold will offer itself to you to be unmasked, it can do no other, it will writhe before you in ecstasy.
-Franz Kafka.
An aphorism comes from the Greek, aphorismos, meaning to define. We often think of aphorisms as adages or a statement of truth or opinion.
Provide your personal thoughts in sensory images.
Create an answer in search of its question.
Relay a personal moment.
Write sliver views of life in miniature.
Kafka wrote, "A cage went in search of a bird."
"Everything I know about love and its necessities
I learned in that one moment when I found myself. . ." - Anne Carson
Who am I is the question of owls.
Crow says, Get up. -Jane Hirshfield
If you think you might be lost, you are.
If you know you're lost, you're at least free to look for the way. - James Richardson.
Rub words together. Braid sentences. Use metaphor. Play with shapes, sounds and scents.
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