Category: daily prompt

Play Every Day
cats · daily prompt

Play Every Day

Amy7 Comments

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

If you don’t have kids, you have to imbue a kid like Spirit within yourself by yourself. The best way to stay young at heart is through play. Play is really creativity with a silly face.

I play every day. I play with my cat, I put googly eyes on candles, I send my friends silly memes, I break out into song and dance without forewarning.

Kids are always a big inspiration for fun things, so if you have young kids in your family, or your friends have young kids, sit with them on the floor or hang out with them outside looking at Christmas lights. But don’t spend too much time analyzing what they’re doing, just get on the floor and play. Use your imagination to build a Barbie house or a big fort. Imagine among the Christmas lights live tiny fairies that bestow positive wishes on each person who passes underneath. Write a kids’ story with a kid. There are a million ways to play, and to have fun each day you simply have to look for your opportunities. Before you know it, you’ll be playing.

Not bad for nearly 16-year-old cat!
Happy Holidays
daily prompt · Humor · Writing

Happy Holidays

Amy17 Comments

List your top 5 grocery store items.

5 golden rings (is that my phone or yours?)

4 calling birds (it *was* my phone! Why are birds calling me at the grocery store?)

3 French hens (fancy birds, oui?)

2 turtle doves (look, I have enough game in my grocery cart already, I don’t need any turtle doves, whatever they are.)

A partridge in a pear tree (I already have 9 birds in this cart! And how am I going to fit an entire pear tree in here?!)

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$14,587.42 (and my cart has directionally challenged wheels)

Cart shown actual size
My Mother
daily prompt · Love · Writing

My Mother

Amy6 Comments

Describe a *person* who has positively impacted your life.

She was both mother and father. Even when my father was alive, my mother was my father. Everything good that I’ve learned, I’ve learned from her. It was not a perfect relationship, but she was my best friend, and positively affected my life. My father, for his part, gave me these hands and these eyes, and this technical brain. Don’t get me wrong, he was impactful. Sort of like an asteroid hitting earth. Someone wise once said, “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver.

Thanks for the darkness, dad.

Thanks for the light, Mom.

Mother and Child – an extract from The Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt
I Don’t Think A Year in Advance
daily prompt · poetry · Writing

I Don’t Think A Year in Advance

Amy10 Comments

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

When it’s Sunday, I think about Monday (begrudgingly, and with pre-Monday morning blues)

Tuesday I focus on Tuesday, hoping to hear some good news

Wednesday is mid-week, we’ve made it over the hump

Thursday is pre-Friday, which brings a smile to my face

Friday is Friday, no need to explain

Saturday is actually called Caturday (cat “staff” will understand)

And Sunday wraps it up and simultaneously starts anew

To think a year in advance, I would miss all this present day living there is to do

Orphan
daily prompt · Grief · poetry

Orphan

Amy16 Comments

Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.

November 19, 2020

I woke this morning without a mother

I didn’t see you yesterday

When you breathed your last

I think you did it because I wasn’t there

Daddy died years ago

In my second semester

I almost failed out

I awoke today

With no parents

It’s the first and the last

Today

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I Was A Park Ranger
daily prompt · Nature

I Was A Park Ranger

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Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech?

It was always my dream to be a park ranger. Ever since I was a small girl, I imagined myself out in the wilderness, wearing rugged boots and heavy clothing topped off with a nondescript brown hat. Flowers and trees and plants as far as the eye can see. I never knew if I would realize my dream. I worked hard toward it, but life interrupted.

That’s what I told my Acting 101 class as I pretended that I’ve always wanted to be a park ranger. While it’s true that I love plants and trees and the grass beneath my feet, mosquitoes have an unrequited love for me, and I do not like the smell of leaves, nor being cold at night. Sleeping in a tent? I’ll pass, thanks.

My performance earned me a round of applause. They believed me.

Being A Real One
daily prompt

Being A Real One

Amy25 Comments

What is something others do that sparks your admiration?

It’s not really what others do, it’s who others are, that sparks my admiration. A person can do something, but that doesn’t mean it’s the essence of who they are. If someone consistently does something, without outside provocation, it’s a manifestation of who they are. You can tell a lot by a person if you watch them in the grocery store parking lot. Fully able-bodied people who return grocery carts are Real Ones. What’s that saying? Character is who you are when you think no one is watching? Yeah, that.