by Linda | Apr 18, 2016 | Authors
“On a small square piece of paper, write down your biggest fear. Fold it into an origami bird and put the bird into a clean, empty eggshell. Glue the eggshell back together with the bird inside. Put the eggshell with the bird in it on a nest made from shredded...
by Linda | Apr 17, 2016 | Authors
“Social Project #4: Find a way to end global warming. Make it work.” Social Project #5. Find a way to end poverty. Make it work.” Prompts #16 and #17 by Ruth Ozeki in the Preface to Choices (Borderline Press, 1916). She attributes these projects to...
by Linda | Apr 16, 2016 | Authors
“…Bend your neck so your head tilts sideways and walk slowly along the stacks of books, reading all the titles out loud, with expression, as if the titles were lines from a poem. Do this until the poem is finished.” -Ruth Ozeki’s prompt #13 in...
by Linda | Apr 15, 2016 | Authors
“Lie down on a piece of paper that is larger than your body. Ask your friend to trace your outline with a heavy black marker. Stand up and look at yourself. This is all there is of you. This is your boundary.” -Ruth Ozeki’s Prompt #12 in the Preface...
by Linda | Apr 15, 2016 | Authors
…and also for cos, cosse, and cus––the Old English and Middle English expressions that are the etymological origins that lead up to a word and an activity that most of us are very fond of. “Yit wol he stele a cuss or tuo.”-John Gower, Confessio...
