Senses
« Previous EntriesToday’s Take Action Prompt: Eavesdropping
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Eavesdropping: We hear snippets of conversation all the time. Cell phones have given us many opportunities to overhear the personal intimate details of perfect strangers. Don’t get mad. Get creative. Use some of the overheard conversations as the foundation for some juicy writing. Go take the mundane and make it brilliant with the stroke of […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Explore the World Through Touch.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Explore the world through touch. Take objects with different textures. As example; pick an orange, a piece of velvet, sandpaper and a doll. Close your eyes and pick each object up. What are the sensations? What emotions do you feel? What images are invoked?
Write a story or poem about the images, sensations and emotions that […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: What’s that smell?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008What’s that smell? In keeping with the theme of exploring our senses this year, I ask that you activate your sense of smell. Spring is a delightful time, offering us new scents with new flowers, spring rains and longer nights. Our sense of smell can activate all sorts of memories. Homeowners selling their homes will […]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Experience the World Without Sense
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Take it away for 15 minutes. In a safe place or with the help of a friend blindfold yourself. Experience the world without this sense. How do your other senses come into play? Do you rely on one more then the other? Walk around and touch things. Sniff the air. Use your ears. How do […]
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: Sensory Explorations
Wednesday, May 21st, 20081. The Box - Fill a box with different small items that have different textures and weight to them. As example you can include a couple pieces of fabric such as burlap, silk or velvet. Put shells, rocks, marbles, keys, etc into the box. Explore it with eyes closed. Are you afraid of what you […]
How Our Senses Influence Our Creativity: Vision
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. ~ Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 […]
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 […]