A Grape Prompt, er...I mean GREAT!

This afternoon I had time and the desire to work on my blogs (yay! feels great!) I needed a sweet snack so instead of digging into the Pumpkin Whoopee Pies I made yesterday, I decided to take a pile of seedless red grapes that I picked up at Giant this week. And they are actually quite tasty! As I plucked two of the perfectly round fruits from the safety of their vine, they caught my eye in a particular way...oh, these grapes would be a great writing prompt. "Describe the grapes - how they look, feel, taste, smell, how they sound as you pierce their taught skin with your teeth, how do they make you feel, recal a memory about eating grapes as a child..." and so on. Yeah, some people would say I'm not right in the head, but that is how I think! :0)

We can write about anything. That is a lot of stuff! Look at life, really look at it and you will find oooodles to write about. You just may surprise yourself with a piece of deep and meaningful writing that was prompted by something so simple...as a grape.

Enjoy the creative journey...

February gathering recap

The group this month was small, but as always, it was a powerful time together. We opened with a free write on a valentine memory. It was wild how each of us remembered those little mail boxes we made in grade school and the experience of sharing the tear-apart cards. We were reminded that although our past experiences may be times of joy or pain each is still "nothing more than a moment in time."

The change in venue this month gave us the opportunity to interact through our writing with the artwork at Common Grounds. We were each drawn to a different piece. As we shared our writing, we discovered that sometimes the background is more impacting than the item in focus, the ordinary can bring to mind powerful lessons from the past, and the value can be the journey and not just the destination.

Thanks for the priviledge of pursuing this gift of writing with you. See you next month. -deb