Tag: dailyprompt
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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…
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A new trend to consider
Since the written word, humanity has sought to spread our ideas as far as possible. We ran messages to other villages, attached notes to birds, and finally figured out how to transmit ideas via wires and almost seemingly through the air. We will always yearn to communicate with one another, and with that we will…
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Use every tool
I told her what I was dealing with. It was a complaint about a job and how I was doing there. But instead of commiserating, she made a suggestion. Something just didn’t seem right. Maybe it was time I talked to someone. It was the kind of suggestion that initially might have made me feel…
