Write your Spirituality

"Fate and religion he'd said, were for those who didn't want to take control of their own lives - or weren't able to.  Much easier to believe in fate or laws of Gods than to accept a universe of chaos. With a god or fate, behind you, you could place your future in someone else's hands, let them be responsible, and when it went wrong you had a convenient patsy." - Mark Pryor from The Bookseller


How do you relate to the above quotation?

Reveal your reverence for something higher and brighter that awakens your passion for life. Do you have a God-substitute that guides life? Does your self-responsibility rule? Do you have a scientific theory to explain the universe of chaos?  How do you express gratitude for life?

Creative Write:  Write about fate and religion. How do you perceive either or both? Provide examples to support your view. How do you tolerate opposing responses? Feel a response to the above quotation and write it out.

Write Your Tides and Currents

John Muir lived in and loved the California wild. As a scientist he studied it and devoted himself to what he called its mystical nature. During the course of his communion with the glaciers and peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, he came close to seeing them as living beings. He moved in the waters and streams following the currents.

The personality of the California Coast changes from south to north. It can nurture with a calm and warmth one minute and emote wild with wind the next.

Its roar and spindrift reach to the edges of expression.

How would you identify the currents and tides that have flowed for years through your own life? Think of the estuaries that gathered and nurtured growth. Acknowledge the rage of storms and their effects.

What changed because of erosion?  What remained as a fierce stream?

Does a mystical nature appear?

Creative Write: Write to deepen your understanding and appreciation of the cycles that have brought you to where you flow today.

Six Words

Respond to each question in six words.  Go for nouns and verbs. If you must use an adjective, make it startle the noun.

Where do you discover amazement in life?

How does a scent remind you of an emotion?

Where does a taste take you back in time?

Describe a favorite song.

What makes you laugh?

Show a color's effect.

Write six sound words like kableem or skeech.

Creative Write: After you create your six word responses, mix them up.  Notice where they might re-arrange themselves in a poem. Let them lead you with nuances and fun.