2022 Creativity Project – Day 12

Morning and Evening

Morning is not mine,
I only enter when I must
Or through some mistake,
The schedule is made later
If I have any input.
Sometimes it is not
To my advantage how this
Allergy works out,
The world runs on its mornings
It grudges noncompliance;
Keeping its treasures
For those who wake up near dawn,
Stretching forth welcome
Its beauties in fine display
Allowing work, joyful play.

Evening brings me strength
Gives me more agility
In body and mind,
It has become my best time
After the bright sun departs.
I find myself more
Adept in the waning day,
My mind is able
To find solutions to problems
Creating is easier, too.
My life has been this
From the beginning and will
Not let the practice
Go, though I attempt making
Changes over and over.

Prompt
Write about the times that you most enjoy and least like. If you are a visual artist create something that signifies your feelings about these times.

Gratitude List
I am thankful:
1. I have finally adopted a cellphone to a greater degree in my life.
2. I have finished two books this year.
3. The tomato soup at lunch was delicious.
4. For music which helps my moods.
5. I am a writer.

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2022 Creativity Project – Day 10

1. The business of the day/Fades away in quiet peace/There is no fanfare/To bid light pleasant goodbyes/We forfeit it with closed eyes.

2. Marketplace wonder/Bounty in every full isle/Pick, choose, satisfy/The need realized this moment/The want not to be denied.

PROMPT – Experience invades and persuades every way each day. Take your day, compress it into some pithy phrases to illuminate what passed for your life. Use tanka or haiku if you like.

Gratitude List – I am thankful: 1. I drove to town and back safely. 2. I got a few consumables to keep body and person together a while longer. 3. Though not synced with average time, I slept.

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2022 Creativity Project – Day 7

I do not know what
I should write, I have words, but
They will not line up
To lend me a voice, to which
Some will pause, gladly listen.

Today, I read John 9, which centers on Jesus healing a man blind from birth. I read the Amplified Version on the Olive Tree Bible Study app, which is an excellent tool for learning. After reading the scripture, I used the BE Commentary to go deeper.

John is all about Jesus being the Son of God, and therefore, God. This chapter is very revealing, and the story, with its situations, is also beautiful.

I have been reading through the Bible again. I started with Psalms, and have read through the Gospels, currently in John. I am not using a plan but reading as I can. Some days it is filled with such grace, precisely suitable for where I am.

I am again at a loss for words, and I do not have a photo either.

Prompt

When you are confused about creating, write about being stumped. If you are a visual artist, begin by not knowing.

Gratitude List
I am thankful:
1. Alex called.
2. My study took me to exactly what I needed.
3. I did not stay in bed all day.
4. I managed to get this done.
5. Life is, and it goes on.

Found a subject to photograph. I got this from Zip’s Pens on Amazon. It is handmade.

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2022 Creativity Project – Day 6

Open the door on a new-fangled year. Somehow it seems unclear who is going on. Will a pose be stuck to endear, or are all acts sheared away.

Maybe everything is unformed as the void was before the Word gave life. Words are the tools to sculpt the way, whatever means each day.

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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2022 Creativity Project – Day 5

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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