writing prompts 2023

Hamish To My Rescue

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WP Daily Writing Prompt asks: How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?

Summer evening at Skagen
Peder Severin Krøyer1892

When I get caught up on the internet, when I am on my phone playing Wordscramble, when I am sitting around watching tv and my brain is in low gear- this is how I unplug.

I just sit there and let my brain flatline and like magic my dog, Hamish Macbeth will  flip my phone out of my hand.  If I am watching tv he will jump up on the couch and shove a toy in my face or throw it at my head ( he’s got one heck of a good aim ).  If I’m on my laptop he will bang his tail against my desk, gently at first and then he goes into ” Cop knock mode “.

Apparently when a cop knocks at your door they sort of bang on it to get your attention to let you know the person tapping on your chamber door is not a raven or someone selling Jesus or cookies and you need to answer it NOW.  Before I got Hamish Macbeth I had read that Labradors have super strong tails and that turned out to be true.

So in the truest sense, I guess I don’t  know when it’s time to unplug and I haven’t found a way to make it happen.

But Hamish Macbeth has figure it out.

Hamish is doing the same thing as a service dog leading it’s blind companion through through the world.

In my case, Hamish is leading me back into it.

Good boy Hamish. Good job.

 

 

Hamish Macbeth
Photo A.M. Moscoso

One Book

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31 Writing Prompts For May: DEAD

Messalina from Rome Louvre
Photographer: Marie-Lan Nguyen

I  have heard that we all have at least one book inside of us- and if you are lucky enough that book will be published and you will have the chance to share your story with the world.

Kouri Richins wrote a book after the death of her husband about grief and how to deal with it. In fact, she wrote it for children and despite the fact she was helping her own children through the loss of their father,  she cared enough to help other people’s children too.

So today I came across a story that says that Kouri Richins is accused of poisoning her husband and that on the night he died she actually made the call to 911 from her children’s bedroom.

Of all the monstrous acts that Kouri is accused of, that one thing, the fact that she made that call to 911 from her children’s room is the most monstrous of them all.

Kouri Darden Richins and her alleged victim- her husband Eric Richins

It’s not often that my breath gets taken away when I read something horrific but this emptied my lungs.

What kind of twisted soul ( allegedly ) poisons her own husband and then write’s a children’s book about  how to deal with the grief caused by death.

A monster,  I suppose. An evil monster who writes books about grief and titles it:” Are You With Me”

Ask A Silly Question

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31 Writing Prompts For May: HEAVEN

Anita Marie Godfrey
1967
Honokaa, Hawaii
Photo Catalina Godfrey

My Mom used to say this when I did something stupid that could possible end my ( then) short life on Earth.

” What’s the matter with you? ” she would say in disgust ” Do you want to go to Heaven?  Are you desperate to get there soon? “

I  should confess that I managed to accomplish this foolish goal of mine a half dozen times before I sat down for breakfast every single day of my childhood.

I would sit there, cereal spoon in hand and say.

” No, No I don’t want to go to Heaven. “

Sometimes she caught a note in my voice that rubbed her the wrong way and then I would smile and she would shake her head and leave the room.

This is copy of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre (inv. 775) which is dated to 1513-1516  As in the original, the Baptist wears a leopard skin, usually considered an attribute of Bacchus.

Paradise

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31 Writing Prompts For May: Blender

Blocks and chunks of ice

Lemon and limes artistically

Encased in their smooth cool skins

Near and  close by they

Don’t have any way of knowing that

Each day my single bottle of 

Rum hungrily awaits to meet them.