Observation

Write about the fires in your life.  The ones that make light and heat. The ones that give your body energy to move and thoughts to think. What shines? What glows? What has a blinding light? What burns in a fiery personality? What makes the spark in a fiery exchange? Unless everything is dark and stone-cold frozen, there has to be a fire somewhere. Notice the fires … [Read more...] about Where’s the Fire?

Before you write anything, spend 20 minutes or more making something. Then write about what you did. You can make anything--arts and crafts, piles of laundry, order in your room. Feel free to spend more than 20 minutes working on what you make. When you are finished with whatever you make, write about the experience--what you did, what you thought, and whatever else … [Read more...] about Make Something!

Look around you and make a list of the things you see.  Write each item on a separate line on the left-hand side of the page, skipping a line between each one. Next to each item on the list, write a sentence that describes what that thing is doing.  Even when your first thought is that the thing is sitting there doing nothing.  You might have to twist your perspective a bit … [Read more...] about Time for Action!