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(Reblogged from August 25, 2015)
It’s Tuesday again, and time for the next prompt challenge from the Sandbox. Just a reminder to anyone reading this that you can jump in at any time. Do one. Do two. Do all if you want. These prompts are a way to get your mind and heart working on a not-so-superficial level — which is REALLY hard to do with all the background noise in our lives these days.
Plato once scribbled in his written works that “…to talk every day about virtue and the other things about which you hear me talking and examining myself and others is the greatest good to man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living…” I think that’s very important because it’s the only way the injustices of our world can be changed. (‘Course that’s just my opinion…)
So here we are at exercise 3. Have fun!
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The Sandbox Writing
Challenge — Exercise 3
What is it that keeps you from being still?
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Picture Source: Pallimed: Arts and Humanities
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Clare’s combined posts 3/4 (Clare’s Cosmos) — Being Still
Jane’s post (Making it write) — I Shall Be Still
Cheryl’s post (Impromptu Promptlings) — Monkey Mind!
Raili’s post (soulgifts — Telling Tales) — Stillness
Shannon’s post (Survival Skills aka Low expectations) — That’ll Be the Day
Linda’s post (Spiritual Dragonfly) — Hitting the Pause Button…or Not
Kelvin’s post (Kelvin M. Knight’s Blog) — My Eye, My Storm
Fim’s post (Quantum Hermit) — Energy
Impromptu Promptlings 
Hey Calen, sorry this took me so long 🙂
https://clare-n-dean.com/2018/02/11/being-still/
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I guess I don’t really need to provide the link as the system automatically generates the pingback. Just delete as desired 🙂
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Girlfriend, I keep tellin’ ya’ll this is just a do-it-when-the-muse-moves-ya thing. I’m just honored that an award-winning speech writer is playing with us! You’re an inspiration! 😉 ❤
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You are so funny – that’s for the early morning giggle and smile
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Now shush and just accept the compliment, girl!!! 😉
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Hi there Calen. Thought I’d give you a wave. I’m following the challenge, but not quite as it’s intended. I’m doing some writing I’m not showing anyone, so that I can develop as a writer in safety. Like just experiment, without worrying about the results. I liked exercise one and I’m going to use the questions to develop a scene involving a character I’m trying to create at the moment, but I haven’t quite got right yet. I’m going to make him look in the mirror to reveal a little more of himself to me! Exercise 2 didn’t really speak to me – but this challenge does – and I think I’m going to get two of my more familiar characters to have a conversation,where one asks this question of the other – I’m trying to get them to be a little more intimate with each other!
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Hey girl! That sounds like a very creative way to use Allen’s exercises. I’m thrilled you’re finding them creatively stimulating! Can’t wait to hear all about it. Glad you checked in. Are you having the time of your life over there? Big hugs! {{{Safar}}}
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Love it here. At the moment, we’re involved in eco-building and the house we’re working on is close to completion. We seem to have a base for at least the next year, which gives us time to learn the lingo and get to know the area before committing to anything permanent. The weather is loads better than Yorkshire without ever getting too hot or too cold, yesterday, I planted out some seeds due to all the signs of spring around us.
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Well it sure sounds like this adventure suits you guys!
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Oh dear. I haven’t even done exercise two yet…
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Don’t fret. You have, like, forever! 😀
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I’ll need it. A few days ago I posted the poem ‘Nowhere to Go’ on the writer’s site i abandoned sometime last year. You wouldn’t believe the response. Tons of fantastic reviews, anguished folk sharing their stories of abuse, wanting a piece of my tenuous peace, folk who don’t get it offering their condolences. It’s taking me all my spare time to reply. I’m handing out advice, finding different ways to say thank you, trying to make it clear that I feel no sense of loss without sounding callous… more messages and replies are coming in…
And then there’s all the stuff that’s going on around me. I sleep between 6 am and 10 am. That’s all I have time for.
Oh – a writer has approached me. He picked out one of my poems on the writer’s site, and asked if he could include it in an anthology. It will be a mix of his poems, some classic stuff and a few of the best on the site. Some of those poets are amazing.
I said yes.
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What am I thinking – I didn’t post Nowhere to go on the writer’s site – I wouldn’t have dared. It was ‘His Last Breath’, – about Mike dying.
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Oh yay! I’m clapping like crazy and doing a happy dance here!!! I’m SO proud of you!!! ❤
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Huh? Nothing !!!!!
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That’s funny. I can’t imagine you EVER being still, though I know you’re really into meditation. 😀
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My goodness! I am TOO still – need to move more 🙂
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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To me not examining your life is to act mostly out of instinct (good or bad). But to examine your life lets you act out of choice…
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