Tag: dailyprompt
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To go back in time
I wish I could travel back just a mere 12 hours, to start again. I wish I had spent this day better, more keenly directing every action towards my goals. But I haven’t. I did this thing and that thing, but not the thing. If I were to start the day again, here’s what I’d…
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Decide
“Don’t you have a method for that?” I was sitting in the kitchen, trying to contemplate my next move. Stuck in indecision, I waffled between continuing tasks at home versus the idea of heading out to a coffee shop. When he said that, I had to question myself, “Why am I making this choice so…
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Think of me.
Think of me. Right now. Think of me, your future self, before you give up. Before you take back up that bad habit. Before choose to quit before you ever start. Think of me, when you’re struggling. When you think you’re doing everything right but everything is going wrong. When you don’t know if you…
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So, prunes?
While traveling in Morocco, we wandered into a restaurant for dinner. With all the French I could muster, I deciphered the menu. The lamb with prunes caught my eye as an American who in no way would think to eat that dried fruit with anything, let alone a gamey meat. But given my experience with…
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Where I want to go
As much as I like to write about travel, I’m realizing now that I don’t travel all that much. It seems like I hit up variations of the same city. (New York, I am still trying to learn you.) But if my finances were to change, I have a growing list of places I want…
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Favored brands
There was a time in my life where I went about collecting quotes almost literally. In tiny handwriting, I covered a sheet of cardstock with as many as called to me. But there was one that I wrote out with a thick-tipped marker, filling the page: Fortune favors the brave. It was something that I…
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Composting
He said it so beautifully, in a way that I won’t do justice. You have to let things die, so they can be compost for something more beautiful to grow. That failed venture, that relationship, that jobs, that plan. They weren’t useless. They weren’t wastes of time. They taught you something. They shifted your life…
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Why I scrolled
Just a few quick scrolls through YouTube shorts is never just a few for me. It’s the place I turn to when I need to turn away from the mountain of overwhelming tasks. I seem to turn to it a lot. Instead of really enjoying the random video that I won’t even remember in the…
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Sorry, I was late
It was a picture of an adorable cub, hanging on to the screen door. In the background were woods. What you likely couldn’t see was the mama bear lurking, ready to attack anyone who came close to her cubs. The picture could have been a beautiful shot of what it’s like to live in a…
A Wren Says 