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Tag: Inspiration
Role Model
Writing Challenge: May 13, 2018 Prompt: Are you a role model for anyone? When she told me I was her role model I was taken aback. Me? A role model? How? Why? We had been friends since high school, for 8 years now. I am not older, I’m not any more accomplished, I’m not … Continue reading Role Model
Climb Mountains
writing challenge: Dec 18, 2017 Prompt: Find a motivational poster online and write something inspired by it. poster: Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. In the Valley everyone seems to be enchanted by Mt. Timpanogos. It is a lumbering form with several well-known trails and … Continue reading Climb Mountains
Island of the Lost
writing challenge: Nov 21, 2017 Prompt: Write about a lost object (I went a bit off topic) There are many tales about an island of lost things- a place that somehow attracts the mislaid, misused, and misguided. People and things alike wash up upon shores made up of millions and billions of the miscellaneous. It’s … Continue reading Island of the Lost
Escape
Writing Challenge: Sept 21, 2017 Prompt: Write about a time you saw hope in what seemed to be a hopeless situation. In the worst of times I thought we would never escape him. Twice before my mother had filed for divorce, and twice it never went through. I had begun to think we would … Continue reading Escape
Rock Canyon at Sunset
*Photo taken by me: October 8, 2017* The Rocky Mountains are young, rough and wild. The way the stone jut out of the ground, violently and forcefully, takes the breath away. At sunset in Utah Valley, the last rays of the westward sun lights up the rocky surface, painting the uneven facades bright gold. This, … Continue reading Rock Canyon at Sunset
Into the Sky
If I took a leap and fell into the sky Am I truly falling, Or is this how I fly? Will I tumble forever among the stars? Will I soar ever higher? Is there a limit how far? If gravity now ceased to exist If the laws of the universe called it quits; Could I … Continue reading Into the Sky
Fly Free
Writing Challenge: June 12, 2017 Prompt: Write about a time you had to let someone or something free. Did they come back? I never want to keep anything in a cage- Least of all you. I never wanted to possess you in any way- I wanted you to choose to be with me. I cannot … Continue reading Fly Free
Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse: 2017 I have never seen the lawn so full. Groups of friends and entire families are sprawled across the grass starting into the sun through paper sun-filtering glasses. The sky was clear and blue. There was not a cloud to be seen. It was hot and bright: as it usually is in late … Continue reading Solar Eclipse
Frozen Moment
Writing Challenge: May 5, 2017 Prompt: Write about a moment you wish you could freeze forever I stared out at the valley from the pass above the river. To the right there was a frosted mint-green field. To the left the dove-grey mountains were adorned with glittering snow-beaded trees. The sky was such a pure … Continue reading Frozen Moment