Reverb10 Prompt 15 : 5 minutes. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. by Patti Digh Author of Creative is a Verb: If You’re Alive, You’re Creative The five minute part Oh shit,…
Reverb10 Prompt: Appreciate. What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it? by Victoria Klein author of 27 Things to Know About Yoga In 2010 I’ve really come to appreciate my friends. I have always been appreciative of them, don’t get me wrong,…
#Reverb10 Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? By Scott Belsky, author of Making Ideas Happen Can I start by saying how excited I was to find out that Scott Belsky’s book exists? I really need some help in this area. I…
I am totally intrigued by all the prompts for this week, and I want to do them all. I’m just going to start with the most recent one and work backwards. Prompt: 11 Things. What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid…
This week was harsh. One or both of my boys has been sick since November 26, and this week we all finally hit the wall. I was skittery from not being able to work at all(with deadlines looming) and from not getting a full night’s sleep. They were skittery from spending too much time sitting…
December 6 – Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? (Author: Gretchen Rubin) This is a weird one for me. In a way I make a lot of things, I bake and I…
#Reverb10 Prompt for December 5 – Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? (Author: Alice Bradley)* I’m not good at letting go. Not in most senses of the word. It’s hard for me to know when to stop, hard to know when I’ve invested enough time, hard to know…
# Reverb10 Prompt 4 – Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year? by Jeff Davis In 1994, I took a course called Myth and Art lead by an amazing professor named Richard Ilgner who could make connections between things I had never thought to connect before. He introduced…
#Reverb10 Day 3: Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). (Author: Ali Edwards) I had a lot of trouble with this one. I had lots of moments in which I felt very alive but the ones that are most vivid…
Today I wrote the title after the piece, I think that works better. Today’s Reverb10 prompt is from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits and mnmlst : What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? This question makes sense coming from him because he is all…