This is an exercise that helps you disorganize your thoughts, and connect them to something new. Write the letters of the alphabet down the left-hand side of the page. Next to each letter, write a word that begins with that letter, the first one that pops into your head. Return to the top and go back through your list. Next to each word write "reminds me of" and write … [Read more...] about Randomly Reminding
Memory
Choosing and Choosing
Every time you do something that you could have done differently, you make a choice. Some choices determine our lives. Where to live, whether to change careers, how to frame our inner autobiography. We also make choices without thinking, out of habit. If we make a choice the same way every time, it's still a choice. Fill a page with choices that you have made, big and … [Read more...] about Choosing and Choosing
There’s Always Water Somewhere
Tell a story from your life that has water in it. Which can be any story at all. If you are alive and on this planet, there is water nearby. In your body, for starters, and in other plants and animals. Not to mention lakes, rivers, and the ocean. There's water underground and in the sky. Water runs inside of pipes in a city or a home. It's in what we eat and what we … [Read more...] about There’s Always Water Somewhere
Sweet Relief!
Tell a story of a disaster that didn't happen. One that you really thought was going to hit you. Until it didn't. Begin with the moment you knew the disaster was averted. Did the understanding come with a word? a gesture? what you saw or smelled? Starting with that moment, tell as much or as little of the rest of the story as you like. If there's still room on the … [Read more...] about Sweet Relief!
A Turning Point, Alphabetically
Think about a turning point in your life. Big or small. A turning point can arrive on an event or a thought. You might notice a turning point as you pass through it, or only come to understand it in retrospect. Write the letters of the alphabet, in any order, down the center of the page. Choose a word that begins with each letter. On the left side, write a phrase or … [Read more...] about A Turning Point, Alphabetically