Lara Tupper: Swift Ink Stories

Fun is allowed.
 

August writing prompt: What are you excited about right now? What makes your brain light up? Make a list, collage, paragraph or poem--whatever feels right. Spend five minutes or five hours. Share this with someone or keep it for yourself.

Here's my list:

1. Ice cream cones.
2. Gathering warm eggs from my hens.
3. Peas from the garden.
4. A hand-me-down dress that fits just right.
5. Joni Mitchell's return to the Newport Folk Festival.
5. ReWritten, an interactive performance about the intimate relationship Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
6. My "Call Me Ishmael" t-shirt.
7. Re-discovering bootleg Prince CDs.
8. Filling out my new Kids Super Journal* with crayons.

*A brief plug!
My talented friend, Elizabeth Heller, has created a timely, thoughtful workbook, Kids Super Journal, which teaches mindfulness techniques to kids. It's the kind of book I wish I'd had as a child. Elizabeth gives kids permission to feel it all--confusion, sadness, anger, joy--and offers creative exer…