Travel
There's nothing like being on the road to inspire a person to write. One of my favorite writing activities on a road trip is to snare 3-5 "found" items from a section of road--say a distance of 5 miles--and to challenge someone else in the car to make up a story featuring those items.
For example, yesterday, travelling from the east side of Washington state to Seattle, those items might include a brown bridge, a trio of white pelicans, and a child's three-wheeler oddly abandoned by the roadside.
The story must be relatively short--say, no more than 10 minutes in the telling--and must reveal something about human nature. In other words, they must create a small mirror in which to see ourselves.
Are you up to the challenge? Anyone who wishes is welcome to post their story here. Not sure long a Good Reads message can be, but limit it only to the amount of space allowed.
Ready? Set! Go!
For example, yesterday, travelling from the east side of Washington state to Seattle, those items might include a brown bridge, a trio of white pelicans, and a child's three-wheeler oddly abandoned by the roadside.
The story must be relatively short--say, no more than 10 minutes in the telling--and must reveal something about human nature. In other words, they must create a small mirror in which to see ourselves.
Are you up to the challenge? Anyone who wishes is welcome to post their story here. Not sure long a Good Reads message can be, but limit it only to the amount of space allowed.
Ready? Set! Go!
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Paula
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Jul 21, 2011 08:20AM
Folks might be interested to know we have found out what we saw were not white pelicans, but possibly an extraordinarily rare sighting of whooping cranes. We were certain they were not pelicans, but the lady at the Trumpeter Swan Society was so insistent, that I gave in and called them that. Now she has informed me that some experienced birders have reported seeing the same 3 birds I described as "swans with black wing tips." Turned out one of these quite endangered (roughly 500 of them in existence, up from 15 in the 1940s, thanks to breeding programs) was seen in the Central Washington area last summer, but it was an uncorroborated sighting--in other words, no photos/film, and no experienced birders saw it--and also one in Montana this year. After much research on whooping cranes, we remain convinced that is exactly what we saw. We should hear more today.
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