#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”
Author Archives: wonderingpilgrim
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”
Those who have gone before
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: If you could, what year would you time travel to and why? I’d set the dial in the Time Machine for somewhere in the 1880s and visit an ancestor, a much published bishop in the Church of England, John Charles Ryle. I’d sit in his study in Liverpool anticipating all the topicsContinue reading “Those who have gone before”
Leaping Leo!
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is your favorite photo you’ve ever taken? Well I didn’t take it, but my camera was used. I was with a small group at a conservation park in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Lion cubs are raised in captivity, then taught to range before being released into the wild. We had just completed twoContinue reading “Leaping Leo!”
Mystery of the Spheres
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Write About Something Mysterious “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Albert Einstein The physician and the artist beheld one the other;Each a sage, each a well-learnèd brother –Might they oppose and withContinue reading “Mystery of the Spheres”
Heart Language
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What book is next on your reading list? There are many vying for attention, but I’ll tell you about the one I’ve just started reading and that was alluded to yesterday – Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience. I had a book giftContinue reading “Heart Language”
My strength is made perfect in weakness
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is a Superpower You Wish You Had? It seems one is doomed to push back on these prompts. A lot of us don’t realise the “superpower” we already possess. My brief brush with martial arts as a teenager left me with one life lesson (and a gammy ankle!) “Do not resistContinue reading “My strength is made perfect in weakness”
Wondering Pilgrim 