Observation
Exploring the World With Your Senses: Touch
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me, heal me, heal me.
~ Pete Townshend, composer of Tommy
Do you remember the first thing you ever touched? Most likely you don’t. Nonetheless when you were young […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Every Picture Tells A Story
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Every Picture Tells A Story
Pick a photo. Find one in the newspaper, or magazine. Look through archives of old photos or borrow a friend’s photo album. Using your amazing power of creativity write a short story, 400 to 1000 words. Be wildly inventive; create characters, a plot line. Who are these people, what is […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Become a People Watcher
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Observe: Become a people watcher. Look at how people move. Notice the color of their hair. Imagine them as children. Do you think they were happy? Do they look sad now? Pay attention to how people interact with each other. Look for the small movements. The way a man touches a woman’s face. How children […]
What Do We Believe?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008“Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” ~ Michele Shea, Author(1992)
Seeing is just not seeing. We grow up in the same families and still our memories are different than a sibling. Ten people witness a […]
Becoming Alive in Every Sense
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
~ John le Carre (1931 - )
In Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own, you are asked to become a super hero and to look at the ordinary things in your life with extraordinary vision. In previous columns we discussed how […]