#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: How do you feel when you look at the stars? Feeling is not my “go to” language. But ask me how I “experience” looking at the night sky and I can speak, filtered by many years of wrestling with my theology and cosmology. I experience total peace born of a sense ofContinue reading “Star-gazing”
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Tree!
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Describe Yourself as a Tree I think that I shall never seeA picture of me as a treeA tree whose leafy boughs do swayAnd drops its leaves along the way; A tree that casts its honkey nutsSafe trudging by it much disrupts Harry Potter’s thrashing treeCharlie Brown’s kite-eating mysteryIt seems that trees areContinue reading “Tree!”
World-changer!
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: How Are You Changing The World? My old cartoon instincts are immediately kicking in, reminding me of my early days of fatherhood sharing the squawling, squirming infant-changing routine. Except no infant here, but a hard done by globe, polluted and sickly, lamenting the loss of dimly remembered pristine goodness. The question forContinue reading “World-changer!”
Playlist
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is on your music playlist right now? The warble of the koolbardi*The chatter of the djitti-djitti*The crash of waves at MullalooThe wind in the treetops too. The sounds of silence when I walk in the bushThe crunch of boots as onwards I push.This is the music that tickles my earsNo budsContinue reading “Playlist”
Solitude
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Where do you go when you need solitude? Where do I go for a bit of quiet?Away from thoughts that start to riot?A secluded spot, a garden shed?Nah, there’s a spot deep inside my head! Where does one go for a bit of peace?Avoiding tensions that defy release?A quiet room, some placeContinue reading “Solitude”
Mirror, mirror on the wall
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is your favorite part about yourself? My resistance to questions such as this! I am finding myself quite reactive and rebellious – it’s like asking for a description of the color of one’s underwear or one’s most intimate thoughts. When one writes for such blogging exercises one is already putting one’sContinue reading “Mirror, mirror on the wall”
Vegemite Valor!
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Write About Something That Makes You Feel Strong Vegemite was staple fare for me as an ankle-biter. As an aging dieter, Vegemite and cheddar on a Cruskit is my lunchtime go-to. There is also something perverse about my taste. Visitors from dominant overseas backgrounds wince at the thought of this tasty spread,Continue reading “Vegemite Valor!”
Dream a Little Dream
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Write About a Dream You Remember Once upon a time, when I remembered dreams, I journaled them. I could now dig up the archives and write about one of them, but that would be ancient history – the issues to which they pointed are long resolved or accommodated. I know I continueContinue reading “Dream a Little Dream”
Clippy Exclusive!
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Interview a Fictional Character An Exclusive Interview with Clippy, who in 2007 quietly retired after ten years service as Microsoft’s Office Assistant. He helped many a PC novice write a letter. Interviewer: Thank you for coming out of retirement to talk with us, Clippy. Your sudden retirement seemed rather abrupt. Are youContinue reading “Clippy Exclusive!”
Life Commandments
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is your favorite quote and why? This pretty much sums up my approach to life. It’s simple but not simplistic. If I filter it through the recurring four-gospel cycle championed by Alexander John Shaia, it involves engagement with times of enduring world-shattering change, persisting through pain and struggle, exalting the beautyContinue reading “Life Commandments”
Wondering Pilgrim 