I encourage everyone to gather their past in the way that is most meaningful to them. If you want to share aspects of what you have gathered, I recommend digital sharing. A project I made a few days ago can stand alone as a Facebook post or become part of a cookbook and memoir of […]
January Prompts
Prompts are effective elicitation tools. Blog editors and publishers write prompts to motivate other writers to write about topics suggested in the prompt. Not all writers, not even all online writers, are bloggers. People also write, podcast, and create video streams for posterity, as journals, and as subject reference articles. So, these prompts are published […]
Month of December Observances
December 1: World AIDS Day December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities[15] December 7: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 10: Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week December 15: Bill of Rights Day December 17: Wright Brothers Day Day Name Recognized by December[edit] December 1 World AIDS Day[19] UN[2][103] December 2 International Day […]
The Last Living Child of My Parents
I wrote much of this post in July 2015: I spent a lot of the day with my brother, Jim, reading prayers he liked (Psalms), ones I like (Buddhist), telling him I love him, talking to him about family, telling him his love for me was always something I cherished, that we would make sure […]
Dodged Another of Depression's Spitballs
Being outside my home or being with non-intimates, not-immediate family, once took outrageous amounts of energy from me. I have learned to spend less energy in social situations, and control the contact I have with others. This is an ever shifting challenge. It is a balancing act. Beyond being a challenge, it also hurts. I […]