When I read Acey’s collage challenge prompts, certain words jump out at me and the rest fade to gray. Therefore, if you are also doing the challenge and say to yourself, “Hmmm, I don’t remember that prompt,” it’s entirely possible that you’re correct.
Anyway, I’m still a few prompts back in the pack, but today I took two steps forward. And I’ll just let the handwritten journal entries speak for themselves.
Day 12 …
Day 13 …
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
One of the gifts from these prompts is how it gives us the pause that lets us step back, think and feel what comes from the recognition, the click, the spark of the prompt. Your response Liz to the care package prompt just grabbed me not only for how beautifully it illustrates your point but for its message in and of itself: We who are “retired” would seem to have all the time in the world to do whatever presents yet for some of us, speaking for myself here, I still hold to self imposed schedules, still tell myself that I can read, or write, or forage for windfall or dye cloth or stitch cloth only when certain self imposed chores have been accomplished…it still feels like a luxury to have a whole block of time to create and that is something that I need to expand further. Love how your collage is teaching me the importance of this…
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Marti – you completely get it … how we seemingly have all the time in the world, but too often creative time waits in the wings while more mundane tasks get put at the top of the to-do list …
And so let us gift ourselves with the best kinds of time …
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These are both so cool. Love the idea of finding all the various yellow squares from 25 covers! SO SO HAPPY that your someday/book cover extravaganza ship has come in!!
Also like the time/piece word play a lot. Thanks so much for sharing your written inclusions as well.
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Acey – my stash runneth over … both paper and cloth. The good news is that most of it was not bought new, but thrifted or otherwise saved from being trashed …
And I’m glad you liked the word play …
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I think if I was retired, right now, I would have to force myself to get up, do tasks and not sit in my pj’s all day looking around online. Time is a gift, sometimes I forget that. I love the precision of your Yello paper quilt!
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I need to gift myself with time off of devices more often
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As I mentioned,I love your titling Liz. Both of these are special and I begin to envisage an incidental poem from the titles somehow? I also loved your description of response to the prompts – it feels just like! I glance at words, something grabs me and the rest kind of disappears, and even the bit I latch onto may not be the gist of the thing at all! I do that with my Th Th often;( and then I go back in and focus on what it really says because that is kind of the job…eek). I hope you continue to enjoy the way the prompts open up thinking and repose in ways you might not have imagined!
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Oh, your Thursday Thoughts are the perfect example of this … and I dare say it’s what usually happens when I comment on blogs, too. Something grabs me and I’m off and running …
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