Adam Fenner's Blog, page 25

Ascent

Daily writing promptTell us about the last thing you got excited about.View all responses

Excitement, exciting exiting
Elations departing emotion

Peaks and valleys aroused
Level terrain elicits boredom

Ground swells invitations
Mountain crags challenge

Ascent from the descent
Excitement measured

This feels like a variation of a prompt from earlier in the week. Not much more to add on the topic but some sloppy word play while I sip my coffee.

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Community garden

Daily writing promptHow would you design the city of the future?View all responses

Earthly sprawl, urban growth
Gardens green, lawns replaced

Decentralized supply chains
Neighborhood gardens, shops

Walking distance, necessities
Parked cars, collecting dust

Idealized future, communities
Homes, gardens, and families

Cities are social structures, economically effective at bringing people together and creating an engine for generating transactions. But that isn’t always the goal, or healthy. It isn’t healthy for people, or for the planet. Not decrying them, they have a purpose. There is an overall benefit for the centralization of that activity and its ability to spread out within a region, downsides too. Not really the point of this post. But when I think about community, I think about neighbors sharing the products of their gardens, and kids riding their bikes to a local store to buy bread, maybe a treat too. When we allow for communities to be zoned for this kind of decentralized shopping, and less reliance on big box stores, these things can thrive. Not the most economically advantageous, but there are ecological benefits. We are products of our ecosystem after all.

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Name?

Daily writing promptWhere did your name come from?View all responses

Earthly origins, original sin
Cycle of birth, deadly journey

Curse of knowledge, toil
Hands of clay, service to…

Innocence, paradise, lost
Forgotten purpose, repent

What is in a name, creation
Knowledge, sin, purpose

We have definitely done this one before.

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Hustler

Daily writing promptWhat motivates you?View all responses

Stimulation, motivation
Elaborate enervation

A problem, for its own sake
Challenges, my own place

Rat race, zero sum competition
Moving goalpost, always more

Me me me, beside me stands
My opponent, yesterday me

Racer’s pistol burst, bills to pay
Inflation, erases gains, hustler

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Moving experience

Daily writing promptWhat are your top ten favorite movies?View all responses

Popcorn, candy
And my buddy

Apprehension
Enthusiasm

Giant monsters
Epic robots

Evil villains
Ready heroes

Fidgeting companion
Settles in my lap

Credits roll
Sticky floor

How was it?
Delightful roar

The best movies, are like the best songs. It is as much about the artistic production as the experience poured into them.

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Writing outflow, reading inflow

Daily writing promptWhat do you enjoy most about writing?View all responses

Stories told, writing path
Pressure builds, released

Daily challenges, explored
Packaged, bottled, shared

Fears and fantasies faced
Consequences considered

Productive output, outflow
Daily discipline, creation

Hopeful reader’s delight
Helpful lessons concealed

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Neighborhood

Daily writing promptWhat do you love about where you live?View all responses

Green palette, painted neighborhood
Wind blown brushes, leaves dance

Prancing babies, spotted fawns stumble
Mothers guide, meandering stroll

Savage tenderness, nature’s games
Except my neighbor’s dog, ugh

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Peppy rollercoaster

Daily writing promptWhat positive emotion do you feel most often?View all responses

Positive emotions
Rollercoaster ride

Leveled approach
Reduce the lows

Stoic outlook
Everyday calm

Title probably suggests there would be more to this one. Still catching up on sleep I suppose. Long week. My personality always leans toward the more leveled approach of stoicism. I try not to have too many highs, because there is always a down from there.

As a final comment, the goal is never to erase emotions, being a robot. Only to manage them, too many highs are a problem, as much as too low of lows.

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Goal set

Daily writing promptHow do you plan your goals?View all responses

Forward objective
Backward planning

Goal setting
Goal defined

Big plans
Small pieces

Dream future
Today’s actions

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Emergency planning

Daily writing promptCreate an emergency preparedness plan.View all responses

Earthquake
Tornado
Hurricane
Sunspots
Political unrest
Global pandemic
Aliens
Zombies
Russians
Giant monsters
Hippies

Food
Water
Ammo
Toilet paper
Radios
Books
Clothes
Board games
First aid kit
Generator
Fuel

And now
We wait

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