Appreciating Everyday Life
Write a blog post inspired by today’s Daily Inkling:
Write a timeline of the big events in your life, and then shuffle them up. How would your identity be different if they had played out in a different order?
There’s an old expression: if you want something done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself. While I adamantly disagree with the implications of that assertion — I believe the whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts — I must confess that sometimes the fact of that statement is true.
The loss of the Daily Post daily prompt left a bit of a hole in my blogging heart, despite the fountain of creative ideas I’ve had since the WordPress-run super blog hung up its boots. What was once a thriving community of bloggers having a quirky and creative prompt to chew on slowly changed. The situational irony of the past became simple one-word thoughts tossed into the either, searching for a lonely spark. And then, on precisely April 1, 2018, nothingness. It was the long, sad, lonely heat death of the daily prompt. Continue reading “Daily Inklings: Writings Prompts for Appreciating Everyday Life”
