Adam Fenner's Blog, page 37

Impact effect

Daily writing promptShare a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life.View all responses

Everyone impacts everyone’s lives
Something, something, butterfly effect

Direct or indirect, affected by the effect
Effect of the affect, an individual choice

Positive impression, positive lesson
Negative attitude, negative impression

Author’s note: Apologies for this, the above is the consequence of too little sleep, and enough cold medicine to remain a functioning human being.

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Freedom / Responsibility

Daily writing promptWhat does freedom mean to you?View all responses

Freedoms gained, or earned
Responsibility considered

Freedom of expression
Responsible for speech

Freedom of action
Responsible to act

Freedom to work
Responsible to earn

Freedom of business
Responsibility to manage

Freedom to vote
Responsible for vote

Freedom of education
Responsibility to learn

Freedoms earned or given
Responsibilities weighed

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Private goals

Daily writing promptWhat public figure do you disagree with the most?View all responses

Public figures, use public discourse
Personal megaphone, Private goals

Agree or disagree, message spreads
Little difference, furthers their goals

Independent thinking, terrify thought
Public figures working for private goals

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Rat race myself

Daily writing promptWhat is your career plan?View all responses

Work hard, harder than yesterday
Get smart, smarter for tomorrow

Solve problems, always add value
Build solutions, today look forward

Race yourself, ignore other’s pace
Elevate others, build a better team

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He was too short

Daily writing promptWhat was the last live performance you saw?View all responses

Natural performers
Impatient audience

Handlers guidance
Enter Stage left

Excited grandmas
Giggling mothers

Packed cafeteria
Stands for videos

“Can you see him”
“No, He is too short”

Out of tune choir
Irreverent verses

“Thank you parents”
“Drive home safe”

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Involved enough

Daily writing promptWhat do you do to be involved in the community?View all responses

Community action
Involved citizenry

Shop local superstore
Eat chain restaurants

Ignore local elections
Social Media politics

Neighbors unknown
Wave to strangers

Prompt tax payment
Good enough citizen

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A Farmer

Daily writing promptWhat’s a job you would like to do for just one day?View all responses

I’m short on coffee, couldn’t frame anything that was really deserving of the answer I wanted to have.

Instead I’m going to share the original audio and transcript from Paul Harvey’s “God Made a Farmer” which says this better than I could.

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker”

— so God made a Farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board”

— so God made a Farmer.

“I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon — and mean it”

— so God made a Farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt,  and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy-two hours”

— so God made a Farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place

— so God made a Farmer.

God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark.”

It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life “doing what dad does”

— so God made a Farmer.

Originally sourced from American Rhetoric Here.

You may also find the audio here on Youtube.

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Brand rejection

Daily writing promptWhat are your favorite brands and why?View all responses

Tribal affiliations
Brand association

Absent Leaders
Parasitic goals

Consumer interest
Pitiable purchases

Sense of belonging
Discarded packaging

Digested community
Wasted membership

Commercial rejection
Social participation

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Everyone teaches

Daily writing promptList the people you admire and look to for advice…View all responses

Everyone offers advice freely
Available to open eyes, ears

Spoken words, of little value
Attention paid, details given

Actions, consequences teach
Lessons clearly, invaluable

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Pastoral retreat

Daily writing promptDo you vote in political elections?View all responses

Politics is for politicians and pundits
Pleasant escape to pastoral poetry

Bumbling bees, bless begonias
Whipping wind, waving willows

Delightfully dancing dizzy deer
Backyard beer brewed bubbly

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