Prompt: What feels fragile but worth protecting right now?
I’ve been very aware of my phone and social media usage lately. It’s too much.
When I’m putting Emi to bed, while she’s sleeping in my arms, I’m scrolling through my TikTok feed. If I pick up my phone to check the weather, I’ll lose another ten minutes to Instagram. I check my email at least four hundred times a day but will go days before responding to any email.
(more…)Prompt: Describe a version of yourself that is just starting to take form.
Phew.
Perhaps it isn’t so much about a version of myself that is starting to take form more than it is about me coalescing, finalizing, or securing the seemingly disparate parts of who I am. If anything, the “more complete” version of myself may be starting to take form.
(more…)Prompt: Write about a moment when waiting felt heavy – almost physical.
After curriculum night – a “meet the teacher” night – at school, I came home and asked Hannah if she wanted to run down to the mall to go look at engagement rings. It was nearing eight o’clock, the mall was about a 15 minute walk away. Of course, we made it.
Hannah picked out a ring that night – the first and only stop at a shop we made. I asked her if she wanted to get married that night, before even putting the ring box down.
I’m a terribly impatient person. I cannot keep a surprise a surprise. I have a hard time waiting when I can’t see a good reason to, and even when I can. My body gets irritated, as if time is scratching me.
This, life many other things about me, is something I want to change. I want to be comfortable with patience. I want to know and feel the tension of waiting – of process – when doing things. I want to feel that presence.
Daily writing prompts can be found at Letters’ Lounge.
Prompt: Write about a recent moment where you felt slightly different than before.
Figuring out what’s going on in my life has been a bit of an adventure of late. I’m trying every which way to find some cohesion or through line to help guide me along. I’ve waffling all of the time.
(more…)Row 47. Picture to follow
Not sure I’ll finish in time for this Sunday. Figure I have another 8 hours of work ahead of me.
Row 27. Spent a good 30 minutes trying to untangle a knot, until Genevieve chewed through the yarn.
