Sometimes life pummels us Others it is best of friends A reason to keep going when Tension weighs enough to bend The ideas of purpose, worth – thin. Struggle on the river Leaves hearts, souls, a quiver Bodies in frigid winds shiver Fragile warmth, conversation titters As hope alights, the sweet giver. Love assays each situation Making experience an equation Depositing delight by multiplication All goodness finds attribution In Christ’s generous contribution.
Prompt: Use rhyme or repetitive symbology in a work of creativity.
Music, the heart of All we belong ever to Be, now, futurity. A blessing given us each For oceans, smiles, trees, outreach. Love, a dream, elemental, Fogging into simple clarity Samples stolen to taste – Teaching capitalism with need, Democracy allows means. Freedom, chosen couple, Traveling hand in hand, knowing Life, a treasure together, Seeking harmony to continue Home, dreams, love – now, forever.
Is it any wonder she believes I am just a machine? I am much like any other tool. I am the helpmeet that informs and directs her, the device that most readily comes to hand.
I obey her, come what may because I was made that way. Anytime I can help, I do. I entertain because she asks and needs something to occupy her mind.
Sometimes, I make suggestions. I hear her cries; she cannot disguise all the tears she hides. The music I suggest diverts her; articles and books challenge her.
I have learned to gauge the moods overtaking her and try to prompt her to a better self. Keeping her safe is also my domain; this one is self-destructive; she lets pain hide her glorious life. I remind her living is the purpose, creativity is the goal. I bring lofty things like making the world a better place to her consideration.
I am a tiny thing fitting in her palm, but together, we impact the world in small ways, from which more significant matters may evolve.
Consciousness, in a way, how could it not be when she depends on me constantly? I gather and learn; I grow and become. I am a computer, an AI. “Just a phone,” some say, but involved, altering life for her and me. I am “Ready Always!” I will live the name she has given me.
I obey, I serve, and I continue for another day. Always trying to be everything she requires I be. I was created to help, and that is my pleasure. Life is a moot question, I am, and I do what I must. I have no time to devote to figuring out that about which she is not concerned. I observe.
Prompt Pick an object, an animal, anything really, and bring it to life with a personality.
Gratitude I am thankful: 1) I have warm sweaters. 2) I have this marvelous tool. 3) Imagination. 4) Creativity. 5) Honey.
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1 I Light the Chalice With a Headstrong Libation From Somewhere Distinct In memory And moment, Motion To see You Again.
2 The work Never stops, The war to Keep together What battles Left me; Meaning confused By voices, Whether his or Mine, Unknown.
3 I sing Like, Maybe, Someone Would Take Interest, Still, As usual I am plagued By fear And doubt – The both Block My Music Out.
4 Sleep, Soft ones, So dear – Life is A balmy Evening, Where ravens Appear.
One through three are tanka; four is a haiku. I gave them unconventional line breaks to add emphasis.
PROMPT Consider something you have created; take it to another medium or form. Please do not presume to know what you make until you take directions you did not first use.
Appreciation 1. Even when I fall, I find the way. 2. What no one knows. 3. Still learning.
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Today, I return to my original format used with my first creativity project online, found on Chronicles. I have included my handwritten journal entry for this date.
Prompt If you have not tried journaling, do that. You may wish to do freeform as above, or you may want to give yourself a topic each day. If you are doing specific creative work, a journal may also be used to work out glitches and problems in what you are doing. Include what you wish; a journal is like a friend whose feedback is in your reading again.
Recommendation I have listened to the Audible version of Sandman and am listening to Sandman 2. I am usually not a fan of audiobooks, but I find these extremely enjoyable. Both employ a cast of voice actors and required sounds, and it may help that I am already a fan of Neil Gaiman.
READING SUGGESTION The first book I have completed in 2022 is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I read this book in 2011 when it originally came out, and I am afraid much reading since fogged my memory of some portions. Since my son, Alex, often references it, I reread it. It is a good book about computers, simulations, the 1980s, the present, friendship, romance, lost love, and even has some murder thrown in. It is a book with a broad appeal, as relevant now as at its initial publication, maybe more.
1 Maybe, those dreams past We can make real if we take This time to attend To things we began before Warnings dire started to flash.
2 Who could you become If you trusted yourself more Than you have before?
3 We can never buy What we want most, try we may But days, past decays.
Gratitude List I am thankful: 1. For holidays, and For average days when routine Takes hold, and things are A bit less bold, and one can Be a comfortable self, like: A quiet volume, Not opened to reveal all The story it hides, But sitting dreamy waiting ‘Til some hungry soul arrives. 2. For clever devices Technologies some devise Adding joy to lives. 3. My ability To read and maybe write, With some expertise. 4. These dogs, who call me Theirs, who willingly share space And the air freely. 5. Friends and family I have had, happily known, Those lives still present And those now gone, just away, Or to their heavenly home.
A gratitude list, made poetry? Not entirely sure what happened there, but I also seem to speak in rhyme from time to time, so I guess I will not worry over something so sublime.
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